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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 200 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 growing rapidly and looking for strong leaders who are up for one of the biggest challenges in the video streaming business, live-streaming millions of concurrent streams and delivering high-quality content to millions of users worldwide.

At Prime Video, you’ll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment. You will own and operate business critical high-throughput services that deliver the content to our customers in a reliable and low latent manner.

Key job responsibilities

Lead a software development team responsible for building and scaling services to serve tens of millions of customers.

Contribute to the vision, goals, and technical strategy in alignment with customer needs and market opportunities.

Mentor engineers, provide leadership on complex technical issues, design trade-offs, and feature and schedule prioritization.

Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an agile environment.

Hire and develop a team of best-in-class engineers.

Be responsible for both development and operations of our services.

A day in the life

You'll directly manage a team of engineers working across multiple high-scale services. You'll attend standup and sprint ceremonies, review technical designs, meet with other engineering, product and UX leaders from across Prime Video, and offer regular career and technical guidance to your team.

About the team

The Content Localization and Accessibility (CLAy) team's mission is to empower Customers world-wide with relevant language options and innovative accessibility assists on Day 1 of their experience with Prime Video.

With a a multidisciplinary team of applied scientists and software developers, CLAy builds exciting new solutions in the multimedia language domain including innovative cloud-based products to automate the localization supply-chain and AI/ML-based solutions to scale subtitle, dubbing, metadata and other types of media content localization across 30+ languages.

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