Software Development Manager, Prime Video - Linear Discovery

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 homepage experience to search capabilities that help customers find live programming. We decide what content collections and carousels appear on 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 take an active role in shaping how customers discover and interact with Live TV on Prime Video. We need your passion, innovative ideas, and creativity to help continue to deliver on our ambitious goals of creating intuitive, personalized, and responsive discovery experiences at scale.


Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Manager for the Linear Discovery Service team, you will:
• Lead and grow a team of software development engineers responsible for building and evolving the page composition engine that determines what carousels and linear content collections appear on Prime Video.
• Set the technical vision and strategy that optimize the placement of content sections based on customer behavior and business rules
• Drive architectural decisions for scalable services that integrate with recommendation systems, balancing technical debt reduction with feature delivery
• Ensure operational excellence across all team services, including robust caching and content delivery mechanisms that provide low-latency responses for millions of concurrent users
• Hire, develop, and retain top engineering talent; manage performance, provide career coaching, and foster an inclusive team culture

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

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