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Job summary
Come build the future of entertainment with us. Are you interested in helping shape the future of live sporting event streaming? Do you want to help define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching?
Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies - all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We offer customers thousands of popular movies and TV shows including Amazon Originals and exclusive licensed content to exciting live sports events. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to add-on channels which they can cancel at anytime and to rent or buy new release movies and TV box sets on the Prime Video Store. Prime Video is a fast-paced, growth business - available in over 240 countries and territories worldwide. The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on.
We are looking for an exceptional Software Development Manager to embark on our journey to build a Prime Video Sports tech team in Austin from the ground up. Our team will focus on developing products to allow for publishing and managing live sporting events & complementary data & insights. You will get a chance to work on greenfield, cutting-edge and large-scale engineering and data science projects.
Key job responsibilities
Build your team from ground up.
• Hire and mentor highly talented engineers.
• Drive charter and roadmaps with your team, management, and principal stakeholders.
• Utilize data science and ML to develop products that deliver great experiences for customers.
• Work with peer Managers and Sr. Managers to get alignment on charter and cross team projects.
• Argue for the right outcomes with data, conviction, and diplomacy
About the team
In September 2018 Prime Video launched its first full-scale live streaming experience to world-wide with NFL Thursday Night Football. That was just the start. Now Amazon has exclusive broadcasting rights to major leagues like NFL Thursday Night Football, Tennis majors like Roland-Garros and English Premier League to list a few and are broadcasting live events across 30+ sports world-wide. Prime Video is expanding not just the breadth of live content that it offers, but the depth of the experience. This is a transformative opportunity, the chance to be at the vanguard of a program that will revolutionize Prime Video and the live streaming experience of customers everywhere.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of experience working directly within engineering teams
- Experience partnering with product OR program management teams
- 3+ years of people management experience, managing engineers
- 3+ years of experience architecting and designing (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
* Experience with highly scalable products
* Experience with AWS services
* Experience with Graph Databases is a plus
* Experience with agile, lean, kanban or similar methodologies to measure and improve delivery
* Ability to balance multiple projects, prioritize, push back and balance work load for the team
* Experience hiring, grooming and growing Software Engineers at various levels
* Be able to communicate effectively with senior leadership, stakeholders and team members
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.