Job Description

Engineering Manager - Video

Location: Berlin (Hybrid)
Sector: Video Streaming / OTT Platform Engineering

A leading European video streaming platform is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for ingesting, processing, and storing large-scale live and on-demand video content.

The platform delivers thousands of live channels and on-demand assets to millions of users, requiring highly scalable and reliable video infrastructure.

This role combines technical leadership and people management, guiding a team responsible for video ingestion pipelines, encoding workflows, and distributed storage systems.

The Role

You will lead a team responsible for the systems that capture, encode, and store live television and VOD content at scale. These systems form the foundation of a large-scale streaming platform.

You will enable the team to deliver reliable and scalable video processing systems while driving technical improvements to architecture and workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for a team responsible for video ingest and storage infrastructure

• Define and evolve the technical architecture with senior engineers

• Oversee the development of scalable, reliable software systems

• Improve engineering standards, quality, and best practices

• Support cross-team collaboration with streaming, playback, and advertising platform teams

• Manage and mentor engineers, including hiring and career development

• Represent the team to internal stakeholders and product leadership

What We’re Looking For

• Experience managing software engineering teams (3+ years)

• Strong background building highly available distributed systems and APIs

• Experience working within agile/Scrum environments

• Strong communication and leadership skills

• Passion for mentoring engineers and growing teams

Nice to have

• Experience with video processing, encoding, or streaming systems

• Exposure to large-scale media infrastructure