This role reports to the single-threaded leader for Video in the Alexa Entertainment group and will manage software development and engineering teams focused on enabling customers to use voice to interact with the entertainment devices within and about their homes.
You have a demonstrated capability of driving dev-ops operational excellence for Internet scale services. You start with the customer and work backwards. Your technical knowledge and expertise is broad and deep. You have experience designing, building, and operating public APIs at Internet scale. The systems you build support highly complex business requirements, and scale with simple and elegant solutions that are highly decoupled. You raise the bar for hiring, developing, motivating, and retaining engineering talent. You thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment where new value is delivered to customers weekly.
You will be joining a select group of a people making history producing one of the most highly rated products in Amazon's history.
As a software development leader you will...
Lead teams of software engineers in the design, development, test, deployment and operation of the Entertainment capabilities of Alexa.
Contribute directly to our growth by hiring smart and motivated engineers and managers to establish teams that can deliver swiftly and predictably, adjusting in an agile fashion to deliver what our customers need.
Be responsible for ensuring sanity of architecture, operational excellence and quality, delivering results on time.
Work closely with other teams across Alexa and AWS to deliver platform features that require cross-team leadership.
Mentor a large group of people and lead as a manager of managers with a direct handle on the pulse of each employee on your team.
Regularly dive into architecture, code, test plans, project plans, deployments and operations to drive excellence through your organization.
Represent your business and operations to the highest level of leadership within Amazon on a weekly basis.
Basic Qualifications
10+ years of experience building and managing development teams that design and deliver large distributed systems
5+ years of experience managing and effectively operating a complex system that is highly reliable and scalable
3+ years experience managing managers
5+ years experience in delivering software projects using Agile / Scrum methodologies
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Engineering (or equivalent)
Project management skills is required
Preferred Qualifications
aster’s degree or higher
Demonstrated effective verbal and written communication skills
Exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills
Certified Scrum Master, Agile Certified Practitioner or similar certification
Experience building large-scale IoT cloud infrastructure and/or IoT device software
Experience building home networking and/or home automation / smart home / connected home products
Experience with large scale process control and automation systems (e.g. MQTT)
Demonstrated experience delivering products, managing budgets and justifying resource needs to senior leaders and finance partners
Experience delivering consumer software products and services in a high growth environment
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