Software Development Manager, Amazon Music

Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Manager (SDM) for Amazon Music team you would be managing a talented team of engineers building technical solutions that offer exciting features to customers in countries / geographies having different culture than other global/established markets, fan-to-artist relationship, native experiences and content mix/variety experience. You are expected to be a leader have an entrepreneurial mindset to ideate and innovate on behalf of the customers in markets having local experiences and apply technology to develop solutions. You identify customer problems, demonstrate excellent judgement skills in decision making, mentoring and growing talent. You inspire people, motivate the team, drive the culture of innovation, implement engineering best practices, and have commitment and grit to deliver results. You define technical and business strategy which generate a positive experience to customers who consume music from different interfaces such as Android, iOS, Amazon Web/Shopping App, etc. depending on the local needs of the customers in markets. You are an engineering leader in driving Operational Excellence by defining strategies, influencing roadmaps and raising the bar to our customers. As an engineering leader, you would be working directly with Music product management and various engineering leaders across Amazon to influence, design and deliver the organizational goals.
- 7+ years of engineering experience
- 5+ 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