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Amazon is all in on games.

We believe the evolution that began with arcade communities a quarter at a time, growing to the live streams and esports of today, will continue to a future where everyone is a gamer and every gamer can create, compete, collaborate and connect with others at massive scale. If you share our belief that games will produce some of the future's most influential voices in media and art, come join us. At Amazon Lumberyard, we are building the game engine to power that future, leveraging the power of Amazon Web Services cloud, Twitch, and our digital and physical media publishing infrastructure available as raw material to forge a future filled with amazing experiences for players, broadcasters and creators.

Amazon Lumberyard is a free AAA game engine deeply integrated with AWS and Twitch. The Lumberyard team aspires to help game developers create the highest quality games, engage massive communities of fans, and connect their games to the vast compute and storage of the cloud. We have an excellent team with long tenure building some of the industry’s most respected games, but we are still growing fast and have many positions left to fill. We're looking for pioneers who can imagine and deliver world-class technology for tomorrow's most celebrated games.

As a Software Development Manager on Lumberyard, you will lead the team to deliver cutting-edge rendering and content focused around a terrain system and the associated tools and workflows.

Key responsibilities include

  • Hire and develop a strong and highly effective Terrain team
  • Lead an organization of senior and junior engineers responsible for the development of highly-scalable, manageable and performant tools and content driven workflows.
  • Create project plans and commitments for yourself and your team, then deliver consistently against those commitments
  • Drive the architecture and technology choices for Lumberyard Tools and Workflows.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) experience
  • 5+ years of large-scale engineering experience in a leadership capacity
  • 3+ years in a management capacity

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Great communication skills and ability to work effectively on shared projects with designers, testers, engineers, and executives.
  • Expertise in highly performant tooling, including profiling and optimization.
  • Deep experience with Qt’s widgets system.
  • Expertise in GPU hardware architecture, graphics APIs, and shading languages.
  • Lumberyard, Unity, Unreal, CryEngine or other 3D game engine development experience.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals in design, algorithms, and data structures.
  • Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
  • Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

We offer excellent pay and generous stock plans, great benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401k with matching, and more. Relocation is available for qualified candidates.

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minority / Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age