Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Prime Video offers customers a vast collection of movies, series, and sports—all available to watch on hundreds of compatible devices. U.S. Prime members can also subscribe to 100+ channels including Max, discovery+, Paramount+ with SHOWTIME, BET+, MGM+, ViX+, PBS KIDS, NBA League Pass, MLB.TV, and STARZ with no extra apps to download, and no cable required. Prime Video is just one of the savings, convenience, and entertainment benefits included in a Prime membership. More than 200 million Prime members around the world enjoy access to Amazon’s enormous selection, exceptional value, and fast delivery.
Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience.
As a Prime Video leader , you will be responsible for collaborating with multiple CDN partners, and deliver technology solutions required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people. We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you!
We are looking for a talented Software Development Manager to lead the development and deployment of scalable, automated Global Video Delivery Solutions (CDN capacity management, video delivery services etc). We operate at Amazon scale where you will lead your team to design and deploy software that will benefit millions of customers globally. The ideal candidate is passionate about leading and building strong software engineering team. You are equally obsessed about delivering the best possible customer experiences. You lead the team in defining software architecture. You define and drive key performance and quality metrics for your team. You communicate effectively with engineers, partners, leaders and a broad set of stakeholders.
Customers love Prime Video and we have a great opportunity to innovate on behalf of our customers. Your ability to make an impact will be directly related to how big your vision is for the team!
Key job responsibilities
What you'll do:
• Define the long-term vision, strategy, and goals for your team
• Hire , manage and grow a team of software engineers, including their projects, performance, and career growth
• Clearly communicate project roadmaps with your team, management, and principal stakeholders
• Collaborate with peers, Product managers and Principal Engineers to deliver highly impactful projects.
• Drive continual architectural improvements to the efficiency and flexibility of the platform while keeping an extremely high bar on customer trust, performance, and availability.
• Argue for the right outcomes with data, conviction, and diplomacy
A day in the life
Working with the Product leader and your team leads to keep an eye on the implementation of strategic initiatives (CDN Capacity Management, Feature development, Re-engineering for scale etc)
People management - 1:1s with your team to keep a pulse on group morale, sub-team challenges
Strategic Meetings with Senior leadership (MBR, QBR, OP1, 3YP, Roadmap updates etc)
Update leadership on relevant program statuses.
Operations management – review production metrics and dashboards to keep an eye on global video delivery for PV
About the team
Prime Video Delivery is the team responsible for orchestrating the best content delivery experience for Prime Video customers. Whether a request is for video-on-demand or a live event we strive to have sufficient capacity available for customers so they have the highest quality viewing experience with zero buffering.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
Job Tags
Full time,