Sr. Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect, GameLift Streams, AWS Games

- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
- 7+ years design/implementation/consulting experience of game or game engine development
- 5+ years of developer experience with streaming/cloud gaming workloads.
- Proven ability to understand streaming game engine user requirements and map these to solutions.
- Experience in deployment, tuning, and management of streaming game engine technologies in a multi-tenant environment.
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- Experience in a technical role within a sales organization
- History of successful technical consulting and/or architecture engagements with large-scale customers or enterprises
- Familiarity with large scale distributed multi-user services and working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
- Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
- AWS Solution Architecture certification or relevant cloud expertise

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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As a Specialist Solutions Architect for AWS Games, you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to redefine how customers solve their challenging problems in deploying and scaling their game and application streaming workloads at global scale. You are a leader for specialists, architects, partners, and account teams around the world and set direction and standards for how we solve customer problems. You partner with technical and business teams across AWS and bring the voice of the customer into our product development roadmap. You will help our team see the big picture and set the plan so the world’s most customer obsessed technical teams can make history.


Key job responsibilities
* Represent the voice of the customer; bring customer feedback to product teams to influence feature development and future product roadmap.
* Provide advanced technical knowledge to your domain aligned GTM teams to unblock our customers’ largest and most critical business challenges.
* Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re: Invent, etc.
* Partner with Business Development teams to define the technical components of best in class GTM concepts, solutions, and initiatives.
* Develop and support an AWS internal community of technical subject matter experts worldwide. Create field enablement materials, to help them understand how to integrate Amazon Web Services streaming solutions into customers’ architectures and distribution channels.

We're looking for people that have:

- A High level understanding of the underlying infrastructure platform and resources to run streaming game engine workloads.
- Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations
- Proficient in one or more of the following programming languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Go, Bash, C++
- Working knowledge of implementing modern web architectures.
- Background knowledge in one or more game engines: Unreal Engine, Unity, Godot, O3DE
- Working knowledge of game engines such as Unreal or Unity
- Working knowledge of containers and container orchestrators such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Working knowledge of serverless APIs
- Experience in a customer-facing, sales-aligned role such as consultant, solutions engineer or solutions architect.
- Track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of business environments such as large enterprises and start-ups

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