Software Development Manager, Sports Data Platform - Prime Video Sports

Amazon Inc.; Chennai; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in Bangalore, India, seeks a Software Development Manager for the Sports Data Platform within Prime Video Sports. You will lead a high-performing team building real-time notification and data systems that power live sports experiences for millions of users worldwide.

You'll own the technical vision, partner with product and design, and drive initiatives across time zones to deliver scalable, reliable live data processing at global scale.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience and 3+ years leading teams.
• 8+ years in defining and developing multi-tier web services.
• Experience with SDLC practices, code reviews, and live site operations.
• Proven ability to partner with product management and design.
• Experience designing scalable, reliable systems and architectures.
• Strong communication with senior leadership and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Hire and grow a high performing engineering team and define the roadmap.
• Deliver systems that shape customer experience for live sports.
• Collaborate with product, design, and partner teams across time zones.
• Own the full technology lifecycle from development to deprecation.
• Drive delivery structures, schedules, risk mitigation, and quality.
• Demonstrate breadth and depth in engineering, avoid over-engineering.
• Hire, mentor, and develop engineers; manage performance.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Team management

Web services architecture

Software development lifecycle

Product collaboration

System design

Job description

Software Development Manager, Sports Data Platform - Prime Video Sports

Ever wondered how millions of sports fans worldwide get the right notification at the perfect moment during a live game, or how a match result instantly updates across every screen? Come build the systems that make it happen.

We're looking for a Software Development Manager to lead a team in Bangalore, India, that sits at the intersection of real-time sports data and customer experience for one of the world's largest streaming platforms. You'll own and drive the technical vision for three critical areas.

You'll lead the team building intelligent, real-time notification systems that reach fans during the moments that matter most, think close game alerts, score updates, and live activity feeds across devices. Your systems will process live sports signals and make split second decisions about what to send, when, and to whom, at global scale.

What you'll do:

You will hire and grow a high performing engineering team, define the technical roadmap, and deliver systems that directly shape how customers experience live sports. You'll work closely with product, design, and partner teams across multiple time zones to solve ambiguous, high impact problems. Your decisions will be visible at the highest levels of the organization and felt by millions of customers on game day.

Why this role:

This is a rare opportunity to build from the ground up in a fast growing, high visibility space. Sports on streaming is still early innings, and the problems here are genuinely hard: real‑time data at scale, intelligent automation, and matching across thousands of global sports entities. You'll have the autonomy to define and drive innovative features.

If you love building systems that delight customers in real time and want to be a part of shaping the future of live sports experiences, we'd love to talk.

Key job responsibilities

A Manager III (SDM III) is a hybrid of system designer, people manager, roadmap/customer satisfaction driver, and project manager. They own the full technology lifecycle of their systems, including development, operations, and deprecation, and are responsible for both the technology vision and business vision of their team.

• Ambiguity: Leads a team where the business problem or strategy may not yet be defined, with limited guidance
• Team Management: Manages a two pizza team of SDEs, potentially across locations
• Technical Leadership: Drives the team to invent, evolve, and deprecate data solutions; scopes projects and evaluates releases against business needs
• Delivery: Establishes structures for delivering large systems; drives schedules, reprioritizes, and mitigates risks proactively
• Engineering Excellence: Demonstrates technical breadth and depth; solves problems at root cause; builds flexible systems without over engineering
• People Development: Hires the right mix of SDEs, manages performance, develops and promotes engineers
• Communication: Writes narratives and strategic docs, fosters constructive dialogue, escalates risks proactively

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
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Veterans, military spouses, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.