Amazon

Software Development Manager, Live Playback (Prime Video)

Posted On

Nov. 11, 2025

Location

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Software Development

Apply By

Dec. 2, 2025

Job Description

Are you interested in shaping the future of Live Streaming? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video is one of the leading digital video services on the Internet today, and we're just getting started. We need your passion, innovative ideas, and creativity to help build a world-class Live streaming platform.

We are seeking a talented Engineering Leader for Live Playback Orchestration team. Our platform supports streaming of thousands of Linear channels and thousands of live sports events such as Thursday Night Football, English Premier League, NBA, MLB, ATP tennis, French Open, UEFA Champions League (list goes on..) world-wide at large scale. As an SDM for Live Playback Orchestration team, you are in-charge of building large scale automation workflows to help setup, tear-down and life cycle management of live infrastructure to support thousands of live events and 24x7 linear channels globally for prime video customers. You will get to work on a lot of established as well as green field AWS technologies and design large scale backend systems from scratch. You will also be exposed to industry leading encoding technologies such as 4K/HDR/Atmos and gain a deep understanding of Prime Video's Live platform.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about simple and elegant software solutions, customer-centric products, and utilizing agile development processes. You will look at problems holistically, beyond the borders of your team, and thrive on solutions that require thinking at multiple levels, from strategic to business tactical to system goals to specific interfaces. You don't shrink from the spotlight, able to coordinate cross-org meetings, field difficult questions, and create positive collaborative outcomes. You are adept at reading code and writing documents for an executive audience. You will ensure solutions are reliable, scalable, and secure.

You will have an enormous opportunity to impact both the customer and partner experience, design, architecture, and implementation of cutting-edge products that will be used every day by people you know, and influence industry and industry standards. No matter what the role, we’re looking for people who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, demonstrate a high degree of ownership, and want to have fun while making history.

Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities

What you'll do:

• Define the long-term vision, strategy, and goals for your team
• Hire , manage and grow a team of software engineers, including their projects, performance, and career growth
• Clearly communicate project roadmaps with your team, management, and principal stakeholders
• Collaborate with peers, Product managers and Principal Engineers to deliver highly impactful projects.
• Drive continual architectural improvements to the efficiency and flexibility of the platform while keeping an extremely high bar on customer trust, performance, and availability.
• Argue for the right outcomes with data, conviction, and diplomacy- 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

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