Software Development Manager for Fire TV Catalog will lead a team that build scaleable, low-latency systems to ingest, store, refine and deliver content for Fire TV Browse and Discovery experiences with special focus on leveraging Machine Learning and AI-based techniques to develop canonical metadata about digital media entities. Fire TV's core experience is highly engaging and innovative for VOD content today. Linear and live programming systems owned by this team make the foundation of Fire TV's new content-forward experience that brings together Live and on-demand entertainment. Fire TV is how millions of people watch, share, and enjoy TV every day. The systems that power this experience are undergoing a substantial revamp to extend this content-forward experience to linear programming, live events and sports. Linear programming continues to be a very large and active form of content streaming and engagement by customers worldwide, even with the acceleration of cord-cutting. Live Sports accounted of 72 of the top-100 most watched broadcasts in the US in 2024. Future Fire TV experience will blur the boundaries between linear and VOD, live and on-demand, with entity linking playing a critical role. SDM for the Catalog Linear services will own full development cycle of scalable, low-latency systems that process data at scale, derive insights, apply breakthrough in machine learning, and sculpt bespoke partner data presentations into a uniform and rich digital media catalog. Your customers will be both third-party linear and sports data providers as well as Fire TV end users. You will be responsible for guiding and contributing to design discussions, helping best ideas break through and surface to the top, mentor engineers on the team, and take on cross-team and high-impact problems. You will help set the team and org goals for the year, and develop mechanisms to execute as a cohesive, high-performance team. You will be expected to promote Day 1 culture, lead by example and channel Think Big leadership qualities so the team operates with long-term thinking, can anticipate future customer needs, and its tech stack can withstand the test of time around scalability, feature extensibility and security. You will work closely with product managers and other engineering teams to deliver key initiatives that impact millions of customers.