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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Sr. Technical Program Manager , Prime Video Sports... - **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc. - **Location:** Austin, TX, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $148,700.0 - $201,200.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Release Management, Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Reliability of Systems, Performance Monitor, Live Streaming - **Published:** August 9, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000gm6bwk ## About the Role We need a highly talented Senior Technical Program Manager to build resilient, highly available, and operationally excellent systems that power our vision. You'll anticipate availability risks, manage critical incidents and escalations, and balance business SLA commitments against technical constraints and operational trade-offs. You must break down complex reliability initiatives into manageable operational improvements, develop comprehensive availability specifications, and deliver measurable enhancements to system uptime and operational health. We seek someone with a strong curiosity to build and nurture an operationally mature, reliability-focused engineering culture-fostering proactive monitoring practices, blameless post-mortem disciplines, and integrating emerging observability and chaos engineering technologies into our operational excellence framework., 5+ years of technical product or program management experience - 3+ years of software development experience - 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience - Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules - Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design - Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps Preferred Qualifications - 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience - Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership ## Description Love sports? Want to change the world? Prime Video is re-inventing the live sports experience by merging high-quality live streaming, immersive interactive features, and exclusive access to some of the world's most loved sports properties - including the NFL, NBA, English Premier League and UEFA Champions League soccer, Rolland-Garros (French Open), the US Open and more. Every day we face the challenges of a fast-paced market and expanding technology set. And we're building at a scale only Amazon is capable of. The Prime Video Sports team is a single-threaded-owner, uniquely positioned to execute our vision across the entire Prime Video stack to deliver the most compelling new experiences to our customers. If this sounds like the type of experience you'd like to help build - apply here and let's chat!, You will own and drive product features partnering with SDMs in our Seattle,WA Austin, TX and Arlington, VA teams. You'll collaborate with Prime Video teams including Catalog, Commerce, Offers, X-Ray, Prime Video Channels, Store Front Automation, devices and more. You will look around corners, anticipate bottlenecks, and use technical judgement to land complex programs for our business. You will also influence and shape how we execute and help drive velocity with high quality. You will manage complex, high-impact availability and operational excellence initiatives spanning multiple teams. Balance competing priorities while maintaining focus on system reliability, operational health, and measurable availability outcomes. You will transform operational incidents, availability gaps, and reliability concerns into prioritized technical specifications by partnering with engineering and operations teams to identify high-impact reliability requirements. Help teams distinguish between tactical incident fixes and strategic availability solutions, consolidating related operational needs into cohesive reliability improvement projects with clear business value and customer impact. This role involves regular communication with senior, director, and VP level management on project status and risks, broad cross-team coordination on project execution, creating effective project management strategies to meet deliverables and organize teams, and regular updates to Critical Program Reviews and other reporting mechanisms. If you're excited about helping to build the future of live sports or just want to have fun creating something you can be proud to show your family and friends, reach out. We'd love to chat. What you will get from us: A great team to work with and the chance to build a top tier services at a proven top tier company. You will get a startup like culture with the stability of an established industry leader. You will get support and resources from some of the smartest people in the industry to continue learning. Key job responsibilities * Define, design, and implement multi-tier distributed services and customer experiences * Be involved in designing, implementing, and testing of major features * Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and rollout system changes that meet requirements for functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, and adherence to development goals and principles. * Effectively collaborate in a fast-paced environment with multiple teams in large organization (software development, QA, Project/Release Management, Build and Release, etc). A day in the life - Interact with leaders from product and/or other partner tech teams and stakeholders for conceptualizing, scoping and/or planning delivery. - Assist with project planning, task break-down, delivery and track status with your team - Communicate delivery status to stakeholders - Contribute to the vision, goals, and technical strategy in alignment with customer needs and market opportunities. - Provide leadership on complex technical issues, design trade-offs, and feature and schedule prioritization. - Innovate on behalf of customer About the team - We are a team who value diversity, respect, and inclusiveness. We love mentoring and helping each other grow. - Our technology choices and designs are driven from the engineers, not handed down from above. - We have a lot of say for what goes into our product. 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