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Job summary
If you€™re a software engineering leader who is looking to lead a video technology team that powers the video collaboration solution of customers like Slack, Blackboard, Sony, Mitel and Tokyo Broadcasting across the globe, the Amazon Chime SDK video team is for you. With Amazon Chime SDK, builders can add real-time voice, video, and messaging powered by machine learning into their applications. We enable intelligent communication features within applications, from multi-party voice and video collaboration to interactive voice response services on the public telephone network. We focus on application developers, enabling them to create innovative communication features customized to their business model and requirements. We make communication services accessible with simple components, empowering builders to develop robust customer engagement capabilities that leverage intelligent services from AWS, such as Transcribe, Comprehend, and Interactive Video Services (IVS).

Are you looking to lead an intimate, fast-paced, early stage AWS team to apply your software engineering skills to? Come join us building Amazon Chime SDK! (https://aws.amazon.com/chime/chime-sdk). Launched in 2019, we are built on top of AWS technologies. We are specifically looking for leaders who are interested in improving our Video experience by relentlessly finding solutions to a wide range of technical challenges in real-time video communications. We are happy to welcome qualified candidates to occupy this role across the country!

This specific position will helps lead a team that will develop and improve our realtime video service be used across MacOS/Windows/iOS/Android SDK customers. We are looking for someone who has a strong understanding of media challenges in VOIP applications. You will help implement video processing components to improve the customer experience. Additionally, you are comfortable debugging low level Video system issues, working on different platforms and devices, and optimizing video quality for different network and device conditions. You will work closely with the client and UX team to deliver incremental improvements from the media team. This will at times require prototyping media-related UI and improving the application build systems.

This is a hands-on position where you closely collaborate with your team to designing and building extremely high quality and stable video service that millions of users can rely on.

You will have a chance to work our external customers that use Amazon Chime SDK to integrate Video into their applications. You need lead the open source commits to Chromium and WebRTC to improve the web video and bring the best video fidelity to the Chime Video services. You need to not only be a top software engineering leader, but will need to be able to dive into the code while leading software design and architecture, have an understanding of video, codecs and video transmission over IP networks, and a stellar record of delivery but also excel at leadership and customer obsession and have a real passion for massive-scale computing. If you want to truly want to help lead a team to solve the hardest challenges in distributed video service to build solutions for large scale high quality video in a wide variety of operating systems and devices, come join our group.

Your responsibilities will include:
Â· Lead engineering teams to translate complex functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design
Â· Deliver systems and features with top-notch quality, on time
Â· Develop new technologies for monitoring production clusters
Â· Own the software development process end-to-end, including: working with engineers and product managers to develop requirements; designing, architecting, planning, implementing, and testing new systems and features; deploying, and operating the production video services.
** For more information, please visit https://aws.amazon.com/chime/chime-sdk/ **

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon€™s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn€™t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it€™s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we€™re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

7+ years of experience working directly within engineering teams
Experience partnering with product OR program management teams
3+ years of people management experience, managing engineers
3+ years of experience architecting and designing (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

Â· 5+ years' experience developing a complex software product
Â· 2+ years' experience in software engineering management

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Â· Masters or PhD in Computer Science with 8 years of relevant software development and engineering management experience
Â· Experience with video development or engineering large scale distributed video service or Video SDK is strongly preferred.
Regular and Reduced Time (F, R)* jobs based in Colorado and virtual jobs where work can be performed in Colorado:
€¢ The pay range for this position in Colorado is $220,100-297,700yr.; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. This information is provided per the Colorado Equal Pay Act. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via Amazon's internal or external careers site.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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