Software Development Manager, Prime Video Content Localization and Accessibility
Amazon
5 - 10 years
Bengaluru
Posted: 3/21/2025
Job Description
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 mission of the Content Localization & Accessibility team in Prime Video is to “Delight Prime Video customers world
- wide with relevant language options and accessibility assists from Day 1”.
With Prime Video’s 3Y goal to acquire and retain the next 100MM customers from international territories, it is imperative that our selection is made available to international customers in their preferred language.
Generating such assets using Localization Service Providers (LSPs) takes multiple weeks to turn around and becomes cost prohibitive when scaled to our entire Catalog across the breadth of languages we support (32 UI languages).
We obsess over making Prime Video the most inclusive streaming platform, providing content with accessibility assists like closed captions, audio description, and an industry
- first Dialogue boost assist.
With increased focus from regulatory bodies from several territories and mandating minimum bar for accessibility in terms of closed captions & audio descriptions coverage, the team is propelled to innovate for the customers in need.
The Content Localization & Accessibility team drives this innovation by leveraging state of the art GenAI solutions to generate these multi
- lingual and accessibility assets at scale, as well as building supply
- chain automation, workflow management tooling and optimized human
- in
- the
- loop solutions.
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
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.
If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how
- we
- hire/accommodations for more information.
If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
About Company
Amazon is a multinational technology and e-commerce company founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994. Initially focused on selling books online, it quickly expanded into a broad range of products and services, including electronics, cloud computing (via Amazon Web Services), streaming, and artificial intelligence. Amazon has revolutionized online shopping with fast delivery, personalized recommendations, and a subscription service called Amazon Prime. It is one of the world's largest and most valuable companies, with a significant impact on retail, technology, and logistics.
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