Prime Video is disrupting traditional media with an ever-increasing selection of movies, TV shows, Emmy Award winning original content, add-on subscriptions including HBO and Showtime, and live events like Thursday Night Football. Within this expanding ecosystem, Linear TV (24/7 Television or broadcast programming) has emerged as one of our fastest-growing segments, with viewership hours increasing significantly year over year. This growth demonstrates that even in the streaming era, customers deeply value the lean-back, curated experience that Linear TV provides.
Our data shows that Linear TV viewers develop strong habitual viewing patterns, spending more time on the platform and engaging more consistently than traditional VOD-only users. The key to supporting these viewing habits is providing seamless, personalized discovery experiences through robust and scalable services. The Linear Discovery Service (LDS) team owns the critical infrastructure that determines how Live TV content is presented to customers - from the composition of the Live TV page to search capabilities that help customers find live programming. We decide what linear content appear on Home and Linear pages, their ordering, and how search results are ranked and displayed across all Prime Video clients, ensuring millions of customers can easily find and enjoy their favorite live programming.
This is your opportunity to lead a team of talented engineers in revolutionizing how customers discover and engage with Live TV on Prime Video. As a Software Development Manager, you will drive technical innovation, foster a culture of engineering excellence, and shape the strategic vision for Linear TV discovery. We're looking for a dynamic leader who can inspire their team to push boundaries, architect scalable solutions, and deliver innovative features that will transform the Linear TV experience for millions of customers worldwide. Your technical expertise, leadership skills, and innovative mindset will be crucial in helping us achieve our ambitious goals of creating the next generation of intuitive, personalized, and responsive discovery experiences at scale.
Key job responsibilities
- Own the definition of the team's charter and technical vision while partnering effectively with customers and stakeholders.
- Establish a roadmap and successfully deliver software that executes that vision, making short vs. long-term decisions and defining clear goals and objectives.
- Independently manage a software development team owning cross-functional discovery services. Hire the right mix of SDEs to accomplish team goals.
- Define metrics to measure team development progress, customer experience, and operational excellence in the context of Linear TV discovery.
- Drive improvements in monitoring, alerting, and operational excellence for Linear discovery services.
- Collaborate with Linear Personalization and Linear Customer Experience teams to evolve discovery services based on new feature requirements and customer insights.
A day in the life
A typical day starts with a daily stand-up, followed by design reviews on upcoming project deliverables such as new carousel ordering algorithms or search relevance improvements. You'll participate in program reviews to align with Product/Program leaders on Linear discovery initiatives. You'll have 1:1s with your team members to support their career growth and technical development. Twice a year, you'll engage in operational planning to develop 3-year vision documents with Product leaders, focusing on the future of Linear TV discovery on Prime Video.
About the team
You will join Prime Video's Linear Discovery Services Team within the Linear Discovery and Personalization organization. The team consists of software engineers with varied experience and a common passion for making Prime Video's Linear TV experience delightful for our customers. We're focused on building intelligent, scalable services that can grow with our rapidly expanding Linear TV audience while maintaining the high performance our customers expect.
