Software Development Manager FTVX Team Whole World

Software Development Manager for Fire TV Catalog will lead a team that build scaleable lowlatency systems to ingest store refine and deliver content for Fire TV Browse and Discovery experiences with special focus on leveraging Machine Learning and AIbased techniques to develop canonical metadata about digital media entities.

Fire TVs core experience is highly engaging and innovative for VOD content today. Linear and live programming systems owned by this team make the foundation of Fire TVs new contentforward experience that brings together Live and ondemand entertainment. Fire TV is how millions of people watch share and enjoy TV every day. The systems that power this experience are undergoing a substantial revamp to extend this contentforward experience to linear programming live events and sports. Linear programming continues to be a very large and active form of content streaming and engagement by customers worldwide even with the acceleration of cordcutting. Sports accounted of 72 of the top100 most watched broadcasts in the US in 2024. Future Fire TV experience will blur the boundaries between linear and VOD live and ondemand with entity linking playing a critical role.

SDM for the Catalog Linear services will own full development cycle of scalable lowlatency systems that process data at scale derive insights apply breakthrough in machine learning and sculpt bespoke partner data presentations into a uniform and rich digital media catalog. Your customers will be both thirdparty linear and sports data providers as well as Fire TV end users.

You will be responsible for guiding and contributing to design discussions helping best ideas break through and surface to the top mentor engineers on the team and take on crossteam and highimpact problems. You will help set the team and org goals for the year and develop mechanisms to execute as a cohesive highperformance team. You will be expected to promote Day 1 culture lead by example and channel Think Big leadership qualities so the team operates with longterm thinking can anticipate future customer needs and its tech stack can withstand the test of time around scalability feature extensibility and security. You will work closely with product managers and other engineering teams to deliver key initiatives that impact millions of customers.

Key job responsibilities

* Lead a team that develop and improve software for entity ingestion curation and aggregation for FireTV devices
* Help develop technical roadmap strategy customer experience and roadmap for FireTV product initiatives
* Create buyin for the technical vision and strategy both internally and with key external partners
* Manage prioritization and tradeoffs among customer experience schedule performance and cost
* Proactively identify and resolve technical risks and issues that may impair the teams ability to meet strategic or technical goals.
* Encourage exploration and employment of stateoftheart technologies including AI distributed data processing data processing at scale with high uptime and AWSmanaged services to enable the development of breakthrough customer experiences.
* Collaborate with crossfunctional team to deliver the best product for our customers
* Contribute towards shaping the nextgen digital media catalog solution that drives bestinclass customer experience on FireTV.
* Review scope and collaborate with team members to prioritize features requested by stakeholders or which are necessary to scale the cloud systems
* Drive continuous improvements with the teams processes and practices.
* Mentor engineers and participate in the hiring process for open roles within our organization


3 years of engineering team management experience
7 years of working directly within engineering teams experience
3 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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 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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.