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 live events like Thursday Night Football. Our architecture operates at Amazon-scale and raises the bar for playback reliability, video start time, and image quality. Prime Video runs on thousands of device types in over 200 territories worldwide.<br/><br/>We’re looking for a Software Development Manager to lead a high-impact 2-pizza engineering team within the Prime Video Offers organization. You’ll own critical services and customer journeys that determine what Prime Video customers can buy, rent, or subscribe to — and at what price. This role combines hands-on technical leadership, strong execution, and people management. You’ll guide the team through architectural evolution while delivering customer-facing capabilities at global scale. The scope spans architecture, delivery, operational excellence, and long-term technical strategy, with opportunities to influence systems that serve millions of Prime Video customers.<br/><br/>You’ll work closely with product managers, senior engineers, and partner teams across Prime Video to solve complex problems, make pragmatic technical trade-offs, and build a team that consistently delivers high-quality results.<br/><br/><br/>Key job responsibilities<br/>As a Software Development Manager on the Prime Video Offers team, you will:<br/>· Own a critical engineering pillar end-to-end. Lead a 2-pizza engineering team responsible for services and customer journeys that are critical to the Prime Video commerce experience. <br/>· You’ll own the architecture, execution, operations, and overall technical health of your area.<br/>· Drive architectural evolution. Lead the team through ongoing modernization and architectural improvements, making sound technical decisions that improve scalability, reliability, maintainability, and speed of future development.<br/>· Build and develop a high-performing team. Hire, coach, and retain strong engineering talent. <br/>· Develop engineers at all levels, raise the technical bar, and create a culture of ownership, innovation, collaboration, and customer obsession.<br/>· Set a high bar for operational excellence. Own the reliability and operational health of your services. · · · · Establish and drive mechanisms around availability, latency, monitoring, on-call health, incident management, cost efficiency, and continuous improvement.<br/>· Deliver customer impact at global scale. Translate business and customer requirements into clear engineering priorities and deliver high-quality capabilities that work reliably across Prime Video's global footprint.<br/>· Partner across organizations. Collaborate with product, design, engineering, and partner teams across Prime Video to align on technical direction, manage dependencies, and deliver solutions across organizational boundaries.<br/>· Balance near-term delivery with long-term investment. Make thoughtful trade-offs between feature delivery, technical debt, reliability, and architectural improvements. Clearly communicate priorities and ensure the team continues to invest in the foundation needed for future growth.<br/>· Influence technical direction. Contribute to broader · Prime Video commerce architecture and engineering practices, bringing the perspective of your team to technical discussions and helping establish scalable patterns across the organization.

Basic qualifications

- 7+ years of engineering experience<br/>- 3+ years of engineering team management experience<br/>- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience<br/>- 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<br/>- Experience partnering with product or program management teams

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<br/>- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers<br/><br/>Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit <a href="https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations">https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations</a> for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.