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 technology, workflows and software solutions in a number of areas in the engine. You will not only be the leader for your team but also be a key contributor to the leadership of the studio you are in and to the Lumberyard organization as a whole.
Key responsibilities include
- Hire and develop a strong and highly effective team
- Lead an organization of 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
- Contribute to and help drive the architecture and technology choices for Lumberyard.
Amazon is an Equal Opportunity – Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age
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
- Great communication skills and ability to work effectively on shared projects with designers, testers, engineers, and executives.
Preferred Qualifications
- Expertise in highly performant software and tools, including profiling and optimization.
- Lumberyard, Unity, Unreal, CryEngine or other 3D game engine development experience.
- Strong computer science fundamentals in design, algorithms, and data structures.
- Expertise in real-time simulation programming concepts, requirements and methodologies.
