Software Development Manager, Prime Video Ads, Prime Video Ads

Prime Video is transforming how customers discover and experience entertainment. We are a premium streaming service offering an endless selection of movies TV shows sports and more - all tailored to each customers unique interests. Our vast library includes thousands of popular movies and TV series critically-acclaimed Amazon Originals exciting live sports and exclusive content you wont find anywhere else. With Prime Video customers can easily find their next favorite show rent or buy new releases or subscribe to premium add-on channels - all within a seamless personalized experience. Prime Video is available globally in over 240 countries and territories bringing the best of entertainment to customers worldwide. We are passionate storytellers committed to fostering connections between creators and audiences through unforgettable viewing experiences.

The Prime Video Advertising team is at the forefront of revolutionizing the streaming advertising landscape. Our mission is to deliver ad tech solutions that power Prime Videos rapidly growing advertising business. We focus on a wide range of critical areas including ad ingestion ad delivery client-side ad experiences machine learning-driven optimization ad tracking and audience measurement. Were responsible for advertising across video-on-demand (VOD) live streaming and display ads on Prime Video delivering value to both advertisers and viewers worldwide.


As a Prime Video technologist youll have end-to-end ownership of the product user experience design and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. Youll get to work on projects that are fast-paced challenging and varied. Youll have the unique opportunity to shape the technical vision for Prime Video Advertising across multiple organizations and domains. This role offers the chance to make a lasting impact on one of the worlds largest streaming advertising platforms during a period of rapid growth. Youll also be able to experiment with new possibilities take risks and collaborate with remarkable people.

Well look for you to bring your diverse perspectives ideas and skill-sets to make Prime Video Advertising even better for our customers.

As a Software Development Manager you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of streaming advertising technology.

Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities include:

* You will join and lead a team of passionate engineers software leaders and product owners who innovate and develop new ways to search for video content across Prime Videos expanding catalog.
* In this new organization thats experiencing rapid growth youll be responsible for elevating our existing systems driving architectural decisions and defining new services that will power our next phase of growth.
* Your expertise will be crucial in scaling our systems and architecting solutions that will support our ambitious growth targets while maintaining a delightful customer experience.
* You will lead projects that develop scalable tier-1 AWS-based software platforms that operate a multi billion dollar business.
* Finally you will partner with senior leaders across the org in developing a strategic vision for Prime Video while also mentoring and developing a team of enthusiastic engineers.
* This role reports into a Senior Manager and has direct exposure to Directors and VPs.

A day in the life
You will lead a two-pizza teams crafting delightful advertising experience for our partners and customers. Your day will involve leading the development of scalable software to power ad formats and experiences to millions of customers. Youll collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers data scientists and applied scientists.

- 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
- 2 years experience in the video advertising tech domain

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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.