Engineering Manager - CDN

Location: Berlin (Hybrid)
Sector: Video Streaming / CDN Infrastructure

A fast-growing video streaming platform is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for delivering video streams to millions of users through a custom-built CDN.

This role sits at the heart of the streaming architecture, ensuring high reliability, excellent Quality of Experience, and scalable delivery of video content globally .

The Role

You will lead a team developing a distributed streaming infrastructure, including a proprietary CDN platform responsible for caching, packaging, encryption, and delivery of live and on-demand content.

The team also maintains backend services that manage stream sessions, authorization logic, and DRM systems.

Key Responsibilities

Lead and grow a team responsible for streaming infrastructure and CDN services

Define the technical roadmap and architecture for video delivery systems

Ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of distributed streaming services

Work hands-on where needed with the technical stack

Collaborate with teams responsible for ingest, playback applications, and advertising systems

Improve development processes and engineering best practices

Hire, mentor, and develop engineering talent

What We’re Looking For

Experience leading software engineering teams (3+ years)

Strong experience building scalable backend services and APIs

Experience with distributed systems and high-traffic platforms

Strong collaboration and communication skills

Technical experience ideally includes:

Video streaming technologies

Content delivery networks or distributed caching systems

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