Engineering Manager Streaming & CDN
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24 days ago
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Job Summary
YOUR FUTURE ON DEMAND
The ideal blend of stability and flexibility. A genuinely human employer that cares for people and the planet. True autonomy to shape what comes next for us and you. This is the perfect platform to take your career where you want.
Back in 2005 we pioneered Europes first TV streaming service. Today were the worlds first certified climate neutral TV streaming provider. Several million users across three countries. Over 230 colleagues of 47 nationalities. Were the grown-up start-up helping to shape a better future since day one. That hasnt changed even if the world has. Were friendly international inclusive and our people say were reliable and transparent too. Its why they trust us and believe in what we do.
THE ROLE
Video is the heart of all Zattoos services. We build and operate a platform that carries thousands of 24/7 live TV channels as well as on-demand content from dozens of providers. The systems to stream all that content and manage the stream sessions for all users is built and maintained by our highly skilled Streaming & CDN team.
As Engineer Manager your role is to enable your team to do their best. As a leader you should be approachable thoughtful listen well and facilitate an easy exchange of ideas knowledge and practices. You should bring your own ideas on how to further optimize the architecture and help extend the capabilities of our system every day. You should be curious about the inner workings of our video encoding and streaming and be able to think and operate at scale.
THE STREAMING & CDN TEAM
The team creates the streams that are directly accessed by our end users for all content that is ingested to our platform. It develops our Smart CDN and makes sure that Quality of Experience stays as high as possible keeping reliability as the highest priority. The Smart CDN consists of a distributed CDN architecture of in-house software components that does advanced caching and JIT packaging and encryption.
Part of the teams responsibility is to implement and maintain various DRM system server components. We also handle stream session management to granularly apply business and access logic to streamed content.
We work closely with several sister teams which maintain other video-related components: Ingest & Storage Ads Backend (they build our in-house SSAI solution) and Playback.
WHAT YOULL DO
- Provide organizational leadership for the Streaming & CDN team
- Own the technical vision with the support of the senior developers
- Oversee the end-to-end development process. Ensure the team delivers high-quality reliable scalable and maintainable solutions
- Constantly raise the bar on quality and best practices
- Represent the team and support stakeholders with technical expertise
- Work hand in hand with other engineering managers and reduce complexity by optimizing joint processes
- Directly manage 2-4 engineers lead the hiring process
- Grow develop and retain engineering talents
- Contribute hands-on to the tech stack of the team
WHAT YOULL BRING
- 3 years experience in leading engineering teams
- Experience in building highly available services and APIs that work and scale efficiently
- Experience in testing on different levels and a mindset that sees testing as a fundamental part of software development
- Experience working in Scrum teams
- Fluent verbal and written English language and communication skills
- Be a role model leader and help others to grow
- Proficient skills in C and/or Go programming
- Bonus: Previous experience with video streaming systems or CDNs
WHY JOIN US
At Zattoo youre always on firm ground with real freedom to explore. Youll have the support and opportunity you need to go far while youre helping us create a sustainable and entertainment-filled future for all.
WHAT WE OFFER YOU
- Reward: strong market competitive salary
- Recharge: 30 days vacation plus public holidays
- Regulate:trust based flexible working hours and the option for remote work worldwide for up to 8 weeks per year
Plus:
- Were sharing: Free access to the best streaming experience on the market
- Were developing: Your own development budget German classes and Zattoo all-company hack days
- **Were inclusive: **Zattooies are a fun engaged and diverse team made up of 47 nationalities
- Were healthy: Health checks team sports organic fruit vegan options and more!
- Were responsible: We are carbon neutral an active employee Green team discounted BVG tickets and free bike rentals
- Were sociable: A calendar of events with fireside chats lunches in-house bar BBQs monthly socials summer party and an annual off-site event
Zattoo enables our users to view indiscriminately and we reflect that in our team too. Regardless of race gender sexual orientation religion national origin age disability or any other characteristic protected by law we encourage everyone to apply and will give everyone equal consideration. We are an equal opportunities employer join us and help build a diverse team dedicated to the future of TV.
Key Skills
- Hospitality Experience
- Go
- Management Experience
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Mechanical Engineering
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Back in 2005 we pioneered Europes first TV streaming service. Today were the worlds first certified climate-neutral TV streaming provider with million monthly users. Over 230 colleagues of 47 nationalities. Were a grown-up start-up helping to shape a better future since day one. That ... View more
