Senior Engineering Manager, Video Enablement

The role

You will manage the video enablement team to own the end to end video pipeline. You will lead the design, build, and support of core video capabilities including live streaming, ingest, transcode, storage, and playback.

What you will do

• Partner with the Director of Video Engineering and PMs to execute the video streaming roadmap.
• Lead the Video Enablement team through the design, build, and support of core video capabilities.
• Measure and improve live and VOD streaming experiences using data and user empathy.
• Hire, onboard, and grow a team of mobile, backend, and infrastructure engineers.
• Serve as a hands-on technical leader by reviewing code and mentoring senior and staff engineers.
• Partner with infrastructure teams to maintain a resilient, scalable, and cost-efficient video pipeline in AWS.
• Enable product feature teams and computer vision teams through clear interfaces and documentation.
• Stay engaged during production incidents to support the team.

Required qualifications

• Strong background in video and audio streaming.
• Hands-on experience in user-generated content and live streaming technologies.
• Proven track record of delivering projects in the video streaming space.
• Leadership style rooted in collaboration.
• Solid understanding of software engineering principles and cloud architecture in a resilient, scalable video infrastructure environment (AWS).
• Ability to think strategically and contribute to long-term engineering vision.
• Comfort operating as a player-coach.
• Excellent communicator.

Nice to have

• Experience coding in Go, Rust, or C#
• Familiarity with Node/TypeScript, React, or mobile languages like Kotlin or Swift

Benefits

• Work remotely throughout the US or from Manhattan, NY office
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Paid volunteer opportunities
• Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years
• WFH stipend - $500 annually
• Monthly physical, mental, wellness & learning stipend through Holisticly
• Monthly lifestyle stipend through Fringe
• Full health benefits including medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and family coverage
• Traditional and Roth 401K plans with immediate company match
• Life insurance
• Disability leave
• Company paid parental leave (up to 20 weeks for birthing parents, 12 weeks for non-birthing parents)

Before you apply

• Unable to hire in AK, DE, HI, IA, LA, MS, MT, OK, and SC
• Please refrain from using AI tools during interviews and assessments

About the company

GameChanger is a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City. They build products to help families experience youth sports moments.