Do you want to own cutting-edge technology, solve new problems that didn’t exist before, and have the ability to see the impact of your successes?
Amazon is shaping the future of digital video entertainment. We seek engineers who can help us shape and develop new video streaming capabilities for Amazon. This is an exciting opportunity for a rock-star engineer who wants to work in a start-up like environment and is passionate about digital media and new customer experiences.
You should be comfortable diving deep into technical architectures and requirements, be able to quickly identify solutions to challenges discovered during development, and ready to work with latest mobile technology. Prior experience in building solutions for video streaming, mobile app or advertising is required. Successful candidates will thrive in environments that leverage agile planning techniques, encourage and reward creative design, intelligent risk taking, and find innovative ways to leverage cutting edge technology.
This is a unique opportunity to work with some of the best Engineers at Amazon and be part of a rapidly growing initiative which is going to become a huge area of growth for Amazon's Advertising business and pioneer the usage of new technology at Amazon scale.
Key Responsibilities:
- This leader will own the software development and engineering work for a free (ad supported) video streaming service within Amazon
- This leader will be responsible for design and implementation of the video and ad tech stack - which comprises of building best-in-class video player and industry leading advertising systems (innovative creatives, targeting, attribution and measurement services).
- The leader will build superior audio and video experiences, including reducing streaming latency.
- This person will build and lead a team of dozens of engineers.
- The successful candidate is expected to be a technical manager who can deliver through leaders and who understands and sets a high bar for all parts of the software development and deployment life cycle including: design, development, documentation, testing and operations.
- You must possess strong verbal and written communication skills, be self-driven and deliver high quality results in a fast-paced environment.
- We're looking for people who are smart and can get things done.
Location: Singapore
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related technical discipline
- 7+ years of relevant engineering experience and 3+ years of people management experience, managing engineers
- 5+ years of experience with building Video Streaming platform related services.
- Experience in partnering with product and program management teams
- Experience leading software engineering teams
- Experience managing customer-facing software systems
- Experience developing and executing a software roadmap
- Experience in OTT / video streaming industry specifically in one of the three areas:Personalization and ML or Transcoding technology; Experience working in Android & Player Tech; Experience building CMS systems & Video Catalogue Management systems.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related technical discipline
- Experience with large scale distributed systems
- Have a strong sense of ownership, urgency and drive
- Be a strong leader, mentor, recruiter, people manager
- Work effectively across functional teams
- Proven experience working with senior leadership and experience influencing and delivering on product roadmaps
- Experience in managing projects and delivering quality releases on schedule
- Experience in building and leading development of complex software systems
- Good judge of top software engineering talent, and ability to grow their careers
- Ability to work well with clients and juggle competing demands, good communication skills
