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Come build the future of entertainment with us. Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching?
Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We offer customers thousands of popular movies and TV shows including Amazon Originals and exclusive licensed content to exciting live sports events. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to add-on channels which they can cancel at anytime and to rent or buy new release movies and TV box sets on the Prime Video Store. Prime Video is a fast-paced, growth business available in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on. Are you excited about the online streaming future of the NFL, French Open, UEFA Champion s League, and English Premiere League? That s just half of it! We are also the home of The Expanse, The Boys, Lord of the Rings, and the largest streaming content library in the world. Prime Video Play Starts is responsible for building a multi-tenant, highly scalable and low latent services that power the Play button for all of Prime Video. We are looking for a strong leader who is up for one of the biggest challenges in the video streaming business, live-streaming millions of concurrent streams and delivering high-quality content to millions of users worldwide. At Prime Video, you ll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment. You will own and operate business critical high-throughput services that deliver the content to our customers in a reliable and low latent manner. Lead a software team responsible for building scalable, reliable services that can serve millions of users Hire, mentor, and grow top engineering talent Build a strong engineering culture focused on quality and velocity Set technical direction and guide architectural decisions Own and deliver the team s roadmap aligned with business and technical goals Collaborate across orgs to execute high-impact initiatives A day in the life Your day balances technical depth with execution focus you re reviewing architectural decisions, steering the roadmap, and unblocking delivery while keeping reliability and cost efficiency front and center. You work closely with your tech leads and product partners to make trade-offs, prioritize what matters, and ensure the team is building the right things the right way. At the same time, you re deeply invested in your people. You coach engineers through growth, give feedback with clarity, and build a culture of high ownership and high trust. You re hiring top talent, shaping engineering standards, and reinforcing a culture of accountability. Whether it s leading a cross-org initiative or responding to a production issue, you operate with urgency, clarity, and long-term thinking. About the team The Play Starts team is at the core of Prime Video s streaming experience. We manage essential, multi-tenant platforms that handle customer interactions from the moment they press play. Our mission is to ensure seamless content delivery, personalizing each viewers experience based on their subscriptions and device specifications. We handle content manifest delivery, synchronize play states across devices, and manage concurrent streaming. Moreover, we play a key role in securing content and ensuring regional compliance, including DRM protection and resolving location-specific challenges. The services we operate are tier-1, critical to both Live and Video-on-Demand playback, and we handle billions of playback start requests every month. Our team s infrastructure is fundamental to Prime Video s commitment to delivering a world-class viewing experience. 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 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
