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
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Provide leadership for a team responsible for video ingest and storage infrastructure
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Define and evolve the technical architecture with senior engineers
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Oversee the development of scalable, reliable software systems
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Improve engineering standards, quality, and best practices
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Support cross-team collaboration with streaming, playback, and advertising platform teams
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Manage and mentor engineers, including hiring and career development
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Represent the team to internal stakeholders and product leadership
What We’re Looking For
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Experience managing software engineering teams (3+ years)
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Strong background building highly available distributed systems and APIs
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Experience working within agile/Scrum environments
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Strong communication and leadership skills
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Passion for mentoring engineers and growing teams
Nice to have
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Experience with video processing, encoding, or streaming systems
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Exposure to large-scale media infrastructure