Engineering Manager Ingest & Storage

Zattoo; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Strong market competitive salary

30 days vacation plus public holidays

Trust based flexible working hours

Free access to streaming services

Development budget

Health checks and mental wellbeing support

Team sports and events

Job summary

A notable technology company is seeking an Engineer Manager in Berlin. This role involves leading the Ingest & Storage team to develop and maintain a scalable video processing platform. Candidates should have at least three years of leadership experience in engineering, be proficient in building APIs, and demonstrate a strong commitment to quality through testing. The role offers a competitive salary, remote work flexibility, and various employee perks, including vacation time and personal development opportunities.

Qualifications

• 3 years experience in leading engineering teams.
• Experience building highly available services.
• Experience working in Scrum teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide organizational leadership for the Ingest & Storage team.
• Own the technical vision with senior developers.
• Oversee the end-to-end development process.
• Ensure the team delivers high-quality solutions.
• Support stakeholders with technical expertise.
• Directly manage 2-4 engineers and lead hiring.

Skills

Leadership in engineering

Experience in APIs and scalability

Testing mindset

Scrum methodology

Fluency in English

Video processing systems knowledge

Job description

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 Europe’s first TV streaming service. Today, we’re the world’s first certified climate neutral TV streaming provider. Several million users across three countries. Over 230 colleagues of 47 nationalities. We’re the grown‑up start‑up, helping to shape a better future since day one. That hasn’t changed, even if the world has. We’re friendly, international, inclusive – and our people say we’re reliable and transparent, too. It’s why they trust us and believe in what we do.

THE ROLE

Video is the heart of all Zattoo’s services. We build and operate a platform which carries thousands of 24/7 live TV channels, as well as on‑demand content from dozens of providers. The systems to process and record all that content is built and maintained by our highly skilled Ingest & Storage 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 VIDEO INGEST & STORAGE TEAM

The team develops the software which drives the company’s satellite headends, video processing systems (live and VOD encoding, transcoding) and video storage clusters. We work closely with several “sister teams” which maintain other video‑related components: Streaming & CDN, Ads Backend, and Playback.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Provide organizational leadership for the Ingest & Storage 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

WHAT YOU’LL 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
• Bonus: Previous experience with video processing or streaming systems

WHY JOIN US?

At Zattoo, you’re always on firm ground with real freedom to explore. You’ll have the support and opportunity you need to go far, while you’re 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:

• We’re sharing: Free access to the best streaming experience on the market
• We're developing: Your own development budget, German classes and Zattoo all‑company hack days
• We’re inclusive: “Zattooies” are a fun, engaged, and diverse team made up of 47 nationalities
• We’re healthy: Health checks, mental wellbeing support, team sports and more!
• We’re responsible: We are carbon neutral, an active employee Green team, discounted BVG tickets and free bike rentals
• We’re sociable: A calendar of events with fireside chats, lunches, in‑house bar, BBQ’s, 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.