Senior Engineering Manager, Video Enablement

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with the Director of Video Engineering, Product Management, and cross-functional teams to define and implement the video streaming roadmap.

• Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of essential video functionalities, including device integrations, mobile-first live streaming and capture, ingest, transcoding, storage, and playback.

• Analyze and enhance live and VOD streaming experiences by utilizing data and understanding user needs.

• Recruit, onboard, and nurture mobile, backend, and infrastructure engineers.

• Establish team culture, mentor senior and staff engineers, and cultivate future technical leaders.

• Provide direct technical leadership through code reviews, development activities, and solutions architecture.

• Collaborate with infrastructure teams to sustain a resilient, scalable, and cost-effective AWS video pipeline.

• Empower product and computer vision teams through effective interfaces, documentation, and collaboration.

• Engage in production incidents and offer support as necessary.

• Manage the daily operations of the Video Enablement team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong expertise in video and audio streaming.

• Practical experience with user-generated content and live-streaming technologies.

• Demonstrated success in delivering projects within the video streaming domain.

• Comprehensive understanding of software engineering principles and cloud architecture.

• Experience with resilient and scalable video infrastructure in AWS.

• Strategic mindset to contribute to the long-term engineering vision.

• Ability to act as a player-coach, establishing credibility while mentoring senior and staff engineers.

• Proficiency in coding with Go, Rust, or C# is advantageous.

• Familiarity with Node/TypeScript, React, Kotlin, or Swift is a plus.

• Comfortable with remote-first and asynchronous communication as a default.

• Must reside in the United States and be authorized to work in the United States.

• Must not need employment visa sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Unlimited vacation policy.

• Paid opportunities for volunteering.

• Technology stipend of $4,000 every two years following your start date.

• Work-from-home stipend of $500 annually.

• Learning stipend of $500 annually.

• Monthly stipend for physical, mental, wellness, and learning through Holisticly.

• Monthly lifestyle stipend through Fringe.

• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and family/dependent coverage.

• Traditional and Roth 401K plans through Vanguard, with immediate company matching.

• Basic, supplemental, and dependent life insurance.

• Short-term and long-term disability leave.

• Company-paid parental leave: up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.

• Family building benefits provided through Progyny.

• Discounts at DICK'S Sporting Goods and family of brands for teammates.

• Options for remote work across the US or access to the Manhattan, NY office.