Amazon · 8 hours ago
Software Development Manager, Production and Post Production Technology
Culver City, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$166K/yr - $288K/yr
7+ years expAmazon MGM Studios is seeking an experienced Software Development Manager III to lead engineering teams building their Studio in the Cloud platform. The role involves managing a team that owns critical components of the SITC platform, architecting distributed systems for media workflows, and ensuring operational excellence while meeting production timelines.
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Responsibilities
Independently lead a software development team (6-12 engineers) that owns critical SITC platform components, managing team structure, software architecture, technical strategy, and delivery execution for workflows such as Dailies infrastructure, Editorial collaboration systems, VFX rendering platform, or Mastering/QC pipelines
Own team-wide and product-wide architectural decisions for your domain including system design, technology choices, API contracts, data models, and integration patterns. Define a 1-2 year technical vision and roadmap that enables SITC to scale from supporting 70+ productions to 150+ concurrent titles
Architect and deliver distributed systems that handle OCF ingestion (terabytes per production), real-time transcoding and processing, low-latency media playback, GPU-accelerated rendering, and global asset distribution across AWS regions. Ensure solutions meet creative quality requirements
Solve complex technical problems including high-bandwidth/low-latency challenges for regions with varying network infrastructure, elastic compute scaling for rendering workloads that must complete on production schedules, multi-region disaster recovery for live productions that cannot tolerate downtime, and integration with vendor systems (Avid, Adobe, Blackmagic) that have specific infrastructure requirements
Partner with Product Management (PMT) to translate customer needs and workflow requirements into technical solutions, providing technical feasibility assessments, effort estimates, and architectural options. Challenge product assumptions when technical constraints require alternative approaches
Lead technical discussions with Principal Engineers and Senior Engineers on system design trade-offs, contribute to architectural reviews across SITC platform, and identify when designs add complexity or impair future innovation. Facilitate technical discussions within your team and in cross-team collaborations
Establish and own operational excellence for your systems including SLAs (uptime, latency, throughput), monitoring and alerting, incident response, capacity planning, and cost optimization. Productions cannot tolerate downtime during active shoots
Contribute to OP1/OP2 planning for Studios Tech organization, influencing engineering roadmaps and resource allocation. Work with peer SDMs and product leadership to align on cross-team dependencies, shared infrastructure, and technical standards
Build and develop your engineering team through effective hiring, performance management, career development, and creating sustainable work/life harmony. Delegate oversight of components, processes, and operations to grow future technical leaders. May manage 1-2 other managers (SDM IIs) or senior ICs leading critical technical areas
Communicate technical vision, system architecture, and delivery status to engineering stakeholders, product leadership, and Studios executives. Write technical narratives, architecture documents, and contribute to PR/FAQs that explain how technical solutions enable customer outcomes
Qualification
Required
3+ years of engineering team management experience
7+ years of engineering experience
8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
3+ years of Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupational experience
1+ years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java, C#, or C++ experience
1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using service-oriented architecture experience
1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming experience
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
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
Preferred
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
Benefits
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
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$8.11BKey Investors
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