Engineering Manager - Video

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