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Senior Engineering Manager, Media Platform

Ottawa Office💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-11 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead the Media Platform team responsible for high-volume video ingestion, processing, storage, retrieval, and playback services.

Role type

Senior Engineering Manager (Media Platform)

Builds

Scalable, event-driven media services for video security and operational insights

Domain

Video security, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Technical team management, video pipeline engineering (WebRTC, HLS, RTSP, FFmpeg), backend/infrastructure engineering, AWS cloud services, distributed systems architecture, observability (OpenTelemetry), CI/CD, incident response

Preferred skills

Audio/video codecs and DSP, Serverless or Kubernetes, TypeScript or Rust, GCP or Azure experience

Technologies

AWS (SQS, EKS, Redis, CloudFront, S3, Lambda), WebRTC, HLS, RTSP, FFmpeg, gstreamer, OpenTelemetry

Responsibilities

Set technical strategy and roadmap, lead design of high-volume event-driven services, guide architectural decisions, oversee service modernization, establish observability and deployment practices, optimize cloud resources, lead production incident response, hire and develop engineers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with people management

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