✦ Luna Orbit — Executive & General Management

Software Development Manager, AI Studios

at Amazon.com

📍 US, CA, Sunnyvale Unknown Posted April 14, 2026
Type Full-Time
Experience lead
Exp. Years 8+ years
Education Not specified
Category Executive & General Management

You will lead a team within AI Studios for Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios to build an AI-native content creation platform. The role emphasizes technical vision, roadmap execution, architecture across backend/media/ML, and measurable operational excellence under SLAs.

  • Define the team charter and technical vision
  • Own the roadmap and delivery goals
  • Lead, mentor, and grow software development engineers, define metrics for progress, customer experience, and operational excellence
  • Drive architectural decisions across backend services, media processing pipelines, APIs, and ML platform

The position covers end-to-end architecture and delivery across backend services, media processing pipelines, APIs, and an ML platform (training and inference). You will define metrics for development progress, customer experience, and operational excellence in a distributed computing environment.

The ideal candidate is an experienced engineering leader with 3+ years of engineering team management and 8+ years leading multi-tier web services development. They have deep experience partnering across engineering and non-technical stakeholders, and they are comfortable owning technical vision, roadmap execution, and architecture decisions for AI/ML-enabled products in large-scale systems with SLAs.

3+ years of engineering team management experience7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience3+ years of designing or architecting (design patternsreliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experienceDefine metrics to measure development progresscustomer experienceand operational excellenceensuring adherence to SLAs
AI/MLengineering team managementtechnical visionroadmapbackend servicesmedia processing pipelinesAPIsML platformcreator-facing toolingdistributed computingmetricsSLAsmulti tier web servicesdesign patternsreliability and scaling
AIAI/ML applicationsintelligent systemssoftware developmentengineering team managementdesigning or architecting new and existing systemsdesign patternsreliability and scalingmulti tier web servicesbackend servicesmedia processing pipelinesAPIsML platformcreator-facing toolingarchitectural decisions across the stackmetricscustomer experience measurementoperational excellenceSLAsdistributed computingmachine learninginferencemodel trainingroadmap ownership
leadmentorand grow a teamculture of technical excellence and innovationcross-functional partnershipguiding implementation of featurescommunicating with stakeholdersbalancing short- and long-term decisionstechnical vision ownership
Industry Media
Job Function Lead engineering delivery for an AI-native content creation platform
Role Subtype VP of Engineering
Tech Domains AI & Machine Learning, Python
Software Development ManagerAI StudiosPrime VideoAmazon MGM StudiosAI-native content creation platformAI/MLAI and cinematic storytellingengineering team managementroadmaptechnical visionbackend servicesmedia processing pipelinesAPIsML platformcreator-facing toolingarchitectural decisionsdistributed computingmetricsSLAsmulti tier web servicesdesign patternsreliability and scalingmodel traininginferenceleadmentorand grow

Must have 3+ years of engineering team management experience, Must have 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience, Must have 3+ years designing or architecting systems with design patterns, reliability and scaling

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