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 technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology 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!
The Content Discovery Experiences team (CDEX, for short) plays a vital role in connecting audiences with the compelling stories and content on Prime Video. Our mission is to foster long-lasting relationships between viewers and the service, ensuring they keep coming back for more. Our work combines the art of curation and personalization with sophisticated data science and machine learning algorithms. We shape the Prime Video experience through human-curated content groupings, personalized recommendations powered by advanced relevance models, and deep insights into viewer behavior. We also enable seamless content discovery via text search and voice integrations with Alexa and third-party devices.
As Software Development Manager, you will lead a "two-pizza" team responsible for crafting delightful customer experiences through personalization, automation and content curation. Your role will involve overseeing tier-1 services that are critical to Prime Video's global content discovery experience. Your day will involve driving engineering excellence, implementing best practices for high-availability systems, and building tools to enable product managers and marketers to deliver the best content to Prime Video customers. With your deep understanding of cloud architectures, distributed systems, and large-scale operations, you'll ensure these mission-critical solutions are robust, performant, and continuously evolving to meet the demands of millions of customers.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 5+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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
- Experience with machine learning, large-language model and/or generative AI, as well as partnering with applied science teams
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
- Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications. Experience with AWS infrastructure and services is a plus.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287,700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.