Software Development Manager, Prime Video: Sye Low Latency Live Streaming - Orchestration
Amazon
DESCRIPTION
Amazon Prime serves 200MM+ members across 25 countries and is at the heart of Amazon’s explosive growth. Prime’s vision is to be the largest and most loved membership program in the world. Towards this vision, we are making Prime relevant and accessible to every individual in the work, differentiate its value proposition across every segment and geography, and empower every Amazon business to accelerate its growth through Prime. The Prime Acquisition team is at the forefront of driving Prime member growth by acquiring Prime members on Amazon.
Sye is Prime Video’s proprietary, UDP-based live streaming technology, purpose-built for delivering high-quality, frame-synchronized live video at low-latency. Sye vision is to ensure that every customer streaming a live event on Prime Video has the best possible viewing experience for their device platform and network conditions. Using Sye, Prime Video (PV) currently achieves fixed glass-to-glass latency and best class quality. Sye contributes to Prime Video’s entertainment hub strategy by offering customers and 3P channel partners a premium live-streaming experience only available through Prime Video.
Key job responsibilities
• Build and maintain the systems responsible for world-wide Prime Video streaming for customers.
• Be the interface between the product owners and the development team, thoroughly understanding the product, helping define user stories, and driving the evaluation of appropriate technical solutions to meet the business requirements.
• Lead the technical team of engineers to deliver on your goals.
• Own engagement with the partners, work to decompose requirements into technical execution plans with multiple development teams, track progress towards goals, and report status to product, business development, and technical leadership.
• Help make the right feature trade-offs to ship software without compromising customer experience and business relevance.
• Engage with many other teams in the company, evangelizing the team and your project, building relationships and helping identify existing components and technologies that can be leveraged to deliver on our goals.
• Represent the technical team to senior leadership across the company.
A day in the life
• You will be working with your team of talented engineers to solve complex problems to benefit Prime Video Customers. Helping to design and implement solutions for low latency streaming that will run on record breaking live events globally.
• You will be part of the team's ceremonies, such as stand up, sprint planning, retro and demo. They will facilitate operational reviews and team meetings and 1 to 1 sessions.
• You will be an active participant in the Sye organisation through attending review meetings, goal reviews, project update meetings and customer sessions.
About the team
Our team manages the end to end low latency streaming offering for prime video. We are located across London, Seattle, and Stockholm Sweden.
We have a diverse range of people and skills in our org, which gives us all new ways to learn how to solve difficult, complex and ambiguous problems.