Job Description
Ready to shape the future of global entertainment?
Join Amazon and MGM Studios Tech as a Senior Software Development Manager where you'll drive transformative initiatives that redefine how studios creates content all the way from a concept to green lighting the project, to distribution, the financials around it and how hundreds of millions of customers worldwide experience streaming content.
You'll be at the forefront of Amazon's entertainment revolution, working where Hollywood meets tech. Your work will directly impact how millions of people discover and enjoy content, while helping shape the future of streaming technology. If you're excited about solving complex technical challenges at massive scale while working with some of the most iconic entertainment brands in the world, this is your opportunity to make history.
Join us in building the future of entertainment!
Key job responsibilities
• Lead complex, high-visibility engineering programs that power the world's most comprehensive digital video studios technology organization.
• Drive architectural decisions and technical strategy for next-generation studios businesses for 3P Distribution.
• Lead engineering teams to build scalable solutions that handle massive amounts of global content data
• Collaborate with MGM Studios, Prime Video leadership, and cross-functional teams to deliver innovative entertainment experiences
• Mentor and develop engineers, program managers and development managers while raising the bar for engineering excellence
Impact You'll Own:
• Shape the technical foundation that brings award-winning content to viewers worldwide
• Design and implement systems that seamlessly handle complex content relationships across multiple dimensions (regions, languages, licensing, etc.)
• Drive operational excellence initiatives that scale across Amazon's global entertainment ecosystem • Lead programs that integrate MGM's iconic content library with Amazon's streaming technology
Basic Qualifications
- 7+ years of engineering experience
- 3+ years of engineering team management 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
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
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
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