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Prime Gaming is a leader in the games subscription business and includes a series of benefits available to all Amazon Prime members geared at making Prime a no-brainer for gamers. Twitch, Lumberyard, Amazon Web Services, Amazon game development and services, our digital and physical media retail, Merch by Amazon and the Amazon Appstore are just some of our current assets that are relevant to this growing community. Games have the power to connect communities at a massive scale, and in this role, you’ll dive deep into the gaming community and help create new experiences and opportunities for connection.

If you are looking for an opportunity to solve deep technical problems, build innovative solutions, work with top notch software developers and game developers, this might be the role for you. We need you to help integrate external games and publishing services with our APIs and form solid working relationships with game developers. The ideal Solution Architect communicates brilliantly, has a solid understanding of a variety of technology platforms, has chops to work with external developers to explain, educate and implement our technologies and has strong social skills to help drive complex integrations. You will also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.

If you love to create awesome integrations that delight and entertain millions of people, are excited to work with a fun and diverse group of colleagues and have passion for video games; come talk to us.

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Partner with the Prime Gaming Business Development team to design solutions for customers, drive Prime Gaming’s adoption and revenue.
  • Be an AWS, Twitch and Amazon technology evangelist in driving tech integration with game and game services. Educate Game Publishers of all sizes on the value proposition of integrating with Prime gaming using Amazon tools and AWS stack.
  • Participate in deep architectural discussions to build confidence and ensure customer success when building new Prime Gaming integration within Game architecture.
  • Facilitate deep-dive “hands-on” education/training materials to transfer knowledge to customers planning to do Prime Gaming integration.
  • Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the SA community.
  • Author or contribute to Prime Gaming customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, tutorials, documentation etc.
  • Present sessions at Twitch, Prime Gaming events and industry conferences.
  • Help drive resolution to tech issues and eliminate redundant processes by being a technical liaison between customers, service engineering & support teams.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
  • Experience consulting and using web services and mobile application development frameworks.
  • Hands on experience in building project prototypes as proof of concept.
  • 2+ years of software design & implementation experience with distributed applications.
  • 2+ year experience working with internal and external developers.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Mastery of the tools of the trade, including a variety of modern programming languages (Java, JavaScript, C/C++, Objective C, Python) and open-source technologies.
  • Experience supporting large-scale high-availability systems in a production environment
  • Experience working with a wide range of technologies and having a good understanding of their pros and cons in particular scenarios.
  • Professional Game industry experience dealing with Game and/or Game backend services.
  • Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills, with an enthusiastic attitude to support and resolve developer issues
  • Willingness to travel up to 20% of time

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