Job summary
Come build the future of entertainment with us. Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to 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 need your passion, innovative ideas, and creativity to help build a world-class Live streaming platform.

We are seeking a talented Engineering Leader for Live Linear Streaming Capabilities team. Our platform supports streaming of thousands of Linear channels and thousands of live sports events such as Thursday Night Football, English Premier League, NBA, MLB, ATP tennis, French Open, UEFA Champions League (list goes on..) world-wide at large scale. As an SDM for Live Linear Streaming Capabilities team, you are in-charge of building large scale automation workflows to help setup, tear-down and life cycle management of live infrastructure to support thousands of live events and 24x7 linear channels globally for prime video customers. You will get to work on a lot of established as well as green field AWS technologies and design large scale backend systems from scratch. You will also be exposed to industry leading encoding technologies such as 4K/HDR/Atmos and gain a deep understanding of Prime Video's Live platform.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about simple and elegant software solutions, customer-centric products, and utilizing agile development processes. You will look at problems holistically, beyond the borders of your team, and thrive on solutions that require thinking at multiple levels, from strategic to business tactical to system goals to specific interfaces. You don't shrink from the spotlight, able to coordinate cross-org meetings, field difficult questions, and create positive collaborative outcomes. You are adept at reading code and writing documents for an executive audience. You will ensure solutions are reliable, scalable, and secure.


Key job responsibilities
You will have an enormous opportunity to impact both the customer and partner experience, design, architecture, and implementation of cutting-edge products that will be used every day by people you know, and influence industry and industry standards. No matter what the role, we’re looking for people who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, demonstrate a high degree of ownership, and want to have fun while they make history.

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
You will collaborate with product, business and technical leaders to collect inputs and requirements and help building global live linear streaming system using AWS cloud technologies. Your responsibilities include all aspects of the software development management from team and SDE growth; full SDLC (initial requirements gathering, scoping, through implementation to launch); and operational excellence. You will have the freedom and encouragement to explore your own ideas and improvements with the reward of seeing your contributions benefit millions of Amazon customers worldwide.

About the team
Customer Obsession is at the heart of everything we do; Our vision is to build a world-class live streaming platform to provide high quality and low latency live video to our customers globally at large scale. We are revolutionising live streaming by partnering with AWS to develop large-scale cloud-based live streaming end-to-end platform.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience working directly within engineering teams.
• Experience partnering with product OR program management teams
• People management experience, managing engineers.
• Experience architecting and designing (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• BS in Computer Science or similar or related experience
• Experience with service oriented architecture
• Experience and knowledge of media container and codec formats, streaming protocols, encoding tools is a plus.
• Experience with Cloud Computing platforms: Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
• Hands-on technical expertise

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