Build Manager, Amazon Games

4 months ago


Irvine, United States Amazon.com Services LLC Full time
Amazon is all-in on games, and our mission is to be the most customer-obsessed company in the industry. At Amazon Games, we’re creating compelling games like New World Aeternum, Blue Protocol, Lost Ark, as well as other unannounced projects.

Amazon Games is looking for a talented and driven Build Manager to join the Orange County team. Are you passionate about advocating for the best customer experience through collaborative partnerships with various business teams? Do you thrive in a fast-moving culture where customer obsession and the ability to think on your feet are highly valued?

Key job responsibilities
In this role you:
- Take ownership of the inputs and outputs into build, release and automation pipelines.
- Work closely with leadership and technical leads to determine when, where and how to deploy updates.
- Seek to thoroughly understand our version control and build generation pipeline as a primary customer and end-user.
- Manage milestone builds being deployed internally, managing and clearly communicating the contents of these builds to stakeholders
- Track development changes and version history as changes move through release streams to ensure releases contain expected results and are free from unexpected churn.
- Assist in the change integration between development streams whenever necessary and expedient.
- Collaborate with our Quality Assurance, Release Management and Production teams to shepherd new builds through the release process and to our players.
- Constantly be looking for process and organizational improvements that increase efficiency and raise quality.
- Investigate, integrate, and develop technologies bringing innovation and improving reliability, performance and productivity;

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of experience using Python, Golang, C# or C++
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams
- Experience releasing product updates by partnering with cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 5+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience
- 5+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
- Experience building processes, project management, and schedules
- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and/or Jenkins
- Gaming Industry Experience


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