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Senior Systems Engineer (Media & Entertainment) - NY

New York (remote)💼 Full-time💰 $260,000–$260,000🗓 2026-06-09 → 2026-09-26

Core

Technical lead for media, entertainment, gaming, and sports accounts, designing storage and workflow architectures for high-demand content production environments.

Role type

Senior pre-sales Systems Engineer (Media & Entertainment)

Builds

Storage and workflow architectures for VFX rendering, editorial finishing, and live broadcast pipelines

Domain

Media & Entertainment, Storage Systems, Pre-sales

Deliverable

client delivery

Required skills

Pre-sales technical leadership, complex engagement management, media workflow architecture, unstructured data storage expertise, creative/technical audience engagement

Preferred skills

Episodic TV/film/sports broadcast/gaming/streaming background, cloud/hybrid media workflows, AI-assisted content creation knowledge, MAM/PAM/platform orchestration familiarity, I/O-intensive application optimization

Technologies

Avid, Premiere, Nuke, After Effects, Flame, Maya, Cinema 4D, DaVinci Resolve, NFS, SMB, Object Storage

Responsibilities

Own technical relationship from discovery through POC and architecture sign-off; Partner with account teams to qualify deals and shape technical strategies; Design architectures for throughput, low-latency access, and multi-site collaboration; Build credibility with technical directors and pipeline engineers; Maintain technical toolkit including reference architectures and solution briefs

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with strategic account ownership

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