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Description

Prime Video (PV) is a premium entertainment service that offers customers the greatest choices in what to watch, and how to watch it. PV delivers movies and TV shows instantly to TVs, tablets, game consoles and PCs worldwide.

We are building the future of TV for customers in over 200 countries to enjoy an endless selection of movies, shows and sports on their TV, mobile devices and desktop. We deliver high-quality video to Amazon customers through subscriptions (Amazon Prime, and Channels) as well as purchases, rentals, and free with ads. Amazon believes so deeply in the mission of Video that we've launched our own studio to create original and exclusive content. Every day we face the challenges of a fast-paced market and expanding technology set. Using advanced machine learning and data mining techniques, we help our customers discover the best movies and TV shows. We measure data in Petabytes and streaming in Exabytes. We obsess over big picture problems like "How do we deliver video that’s more reliable than the internet it’s delivered over?" to low level details like "How do we squeeze maximum picture quality out of every bit delivered?". In short, we’re inventing the new paradigm for finding and enjoying video content in an industry that’s doubling every year, and you can be a part of it.

As a Software Development Manager of this team, you will lead and own some of PV’s most critical software, which is responsible for curating and delivering PV's most anticipated content to our customers. You will ensure that your software is able to meet and scale to the evolving needs of PV. You will define the vision and roadmap for the team. You will recruit, hire and lead software development engineers to deliver this vision. You will set a high bar for operations within your team and own the metrics for your software and programs.

Key job responsibilities
* You independently manage a team of SDEs. You are able to assess SDE performance and have experience managing both high and low performers.
* You define the strategic vision for your team, partnering effectively with customers and stakeholders.
* You establish a roadmap and successfully deliver software that executes that vision.
* You are able to independently make short-term vs. long-term decisions. You make crisp decisions about what projects move forward and in what priority order.
* You proactively identify risks and bring them to the attention of your manager, customers, and stakeholders with plans for mitigation before they become roadblocks.
* You communicate ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing, to all types of audiences.
* You work successfully with customers, leaders, and other engineering teams. You foster a constructive dialogue, harmonize discordant views, and lead the resolution of contentious issues.
* You define metrics to measure team development progress, customer experience, and operational excellence.
* You improve the quality of the software operational performance metrics owned by your team.



About the team
Amazon invests in creating award-winning original content like The Wheel of Time, The Boys, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel and Man in the High Castle. Our content drives brand loyalty and increases customer engagement with Prime Video. Our team owns the critical responsibility of launching these highly anticipated content on our storefront. We own and innovate on algorithms to help our customers discover these award-winning content from the moment it's made available to stream. Prime Video has a variety of business lines that offer a suite of video consumption products like Amazon originals, free prime content, rentals, purchases, channel subscriptions, live events, the list goes on... Our team is highly sought after by each of these business lines to innovate on their behalf and create buzz for their marquee content. Our services handle a massive scale of customer requests every second across the globe. We build high scale distributed systems on the AWS cloud to make sure our service is always reliable for our customers.