Software Development Manager, Linear, Linear Discovery Services

Prime Video is disrupting traditional media with an ever-increasing selection of movies TV shows Emmy Award winning original content add-on subscriptions including HBO and Showtime and live events like Thursday Night Football. Within this expanding ecosystem Linear TV (24/7 Television or broadcast programming) has emerged as one of our fastest-growing segments with viewership hours increasing significantly year over year. This growth demonstrates that even in the streaming era customers deeply value the lean-back curated experience that Linear TV provides.

Our data shows that Linear TV viewers develop strong habitual viewing patterns spending more time on the platform and engaging more consistently than traditional VOD-only users. The key to supporting these viewing habits is providing seamless personalized discovery experiences through robust and scalable services. The Linear Discovery Service (LDS) team owns the critical infrastructure that determines how Live TV content is presented to customers - from the composition of the Live TV page to search capabilities that help customers find live programming. We decide what linear content appear on Home and Linear pages their ordering and how search results are ranked and displayed across all Prime Video clients ensuring millions of customers can easily find and enjoy their favorite live programming.

This is your opportunity to lead a team of talented engineers in revolutionizing how customers discover and engage with Live TV on Prime Video. As a Software Development Manager you will drive technical innovation foster a culture of engineering excellence and shape the strategic vision for Linear TV discovery. Were looking for a dynamic leader who can inspire their team to push boundaries architect scalable solutions and deliver innovative features that will transform the Linear TV experience for millions of customers worldwide. Your technical expertise leadership skills and innovative mindset will be crucial in helping us achieve our ambitious goals of creating the next generation of intuitive personalized and responsive discovery experiences at scale.


Key job responsibilities
- Own the definition of the teams charter and technical vision while partnering effectively with customers and stakeholders.
- Establish a roadmap and successfully deliver software that executes that vision making short vs. long-term decisions and defining clear goals and objectives.
- Independently manage a software development team owning cross-functional discovery services. Hire the right mix of SDEs to accomplish team goals.
- Define metrics to measure team development progress customer experience and operational excellence in the context of Linear TV discovery.
- Drive improvements in monitoring alerting and operational excellence for Linear discovery services.
- Collaborate with Linear Personalization and Linear Customer Experience teams to evolve discovery services based on new feature requirements and customer insights.

A day in the life
A typical day starts with a daily stand-up followed by design reviews on upcoming project deliverables such as new carousel ordering algorithms or search relevance improvements. Youll participate in program reviews to align with Product/Program leaders on Linear discovery initiatives. Youll have 1:1s with your team members to support their career growth and technical development. Twice a year youll engage in operational planning to develop 3-year vision documents with Product leaders focusing on the future of Linear TV discovery on Prime Video.

About the team
You will join Prime Videos Linear Discovery Services Team within the Linear Discovery and Personalization organization. The team consists of software engineers with varied experience and a common passion for making Prime Videos Linear TV experience delightful for our customers. Were focused on building intelligent scalable services that can grow with our rapidly expanding Linear TV audience while maintaining the high performance our customers expect.

- 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 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.