Manager, Software Development

Amazon is hiring a Manager, Software Development in Bengaluru, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Manage software engineering teams to design, scale, and operate distributed payment systems at Amazon scale.

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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 live events like Thursday Night Football. Our architecture operates at Amazon-scale and raises the bar for playback reliability, video start time, and image quality. Prime Video runs on thousands of device types in over 200 territories worldwide.
The Prime Video Payments team serves as the voice of our customers, advocates on behalf of those customers, and delivers capabilities that allow us to acquire, engage, and retain more of them. Our mission is to ensure every internet-connected customer in the world can enjoy Prime Video.
Our architecture serves billions of requests per day, with obsessively high reliability and low operational overhead. We leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies including EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, Kinesis, IoT, and CloudFront.

As a Manager, Software Development on the Prime Video Payments team, you will oversee the design and implementation of significant technical projects by both achieving results through SDE's and QAE's. You will help influence the team’s technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to priorities and approach, set the standard for engineering excellence, take the lead in identifying and solving ambiguous technical problems, architecture deficiencies, or areas where your team’s software bottlenecks the innovation of other teams and collaborate and influence other teams throughout the greater Prime Video organization. To achieve results through others, you will demonstrate technical influence over the different individual teams, either via a collaborative software effort or by increasing their productivity and effectiveness by driving software engineering best practices. You'll also lead design reviews for the org, actively participate in design reviews across Prime Video, provide insightful code reviews and actively mentor other engineers.

Key Responsibilities:
· Manage 1-2 teams of high caliber Software Engineers working on building, scaling world class, distributed systems
· Recruit, hire, mentor, and coach SDEs and QAEs at different levels of experience
· Manage and execute against project plans and delivery commitments within an Agile/Scrum environment
· Contribute to and lead design, architecture, process and development discussions
· Own all operational metrics and support for your teams' software
· Drive improvements in software engineering practices across engineering teams

Basic qualifications

- 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

Preferred qualifications

- 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

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Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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Key facts

Manager, Software Development is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in IN, KA, Bengaluru.
The job was posted on August 19, 2026.
Seniority: lead.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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