Engineering Manager Streaming & CDN in Berlin

Energy Jobline ZR; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading technology company in Berlin is seeking an Engineer Manager to lead the Streaming & CDN team. You will provide organizational leadership, oversee development processes, and enhance system capabilities. The ideal candidate has at least 3 years of experience in leading teams and is proficient in C++ or Go, with strong communication skills. Enjoy flexible working hours, a competitive salary, and benefits like 30 days vacation and health perks.

Leistungen

Strong market-competitive salary

30 days vacation plus public holidays

Flexible working hours

Remote work option for up to 8 weeks

Free access to streaming services

Development budget and German classes

Health checks and team sports

Qualifikationen

• 3 years experience leading engineering teams.
• Experience building highly available services and APIs.
• Fluent in verbal and written English.

Aufgaben

• Provide organisational leadership for the Streaming & CDN team.
• Manage 2–4 engineers and lead the hiring process.
• Oversee end-to-end development process.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

C++ proficiency

Go programming skills

Strong communication

Experience in Scrum

Testing mindset

Jobbeschreibung

Job Description

Video is the heart of all Zattoo’s 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 are built and maintained by our highly skilled Streaming & CDN team.

THE ROLE

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 optimise 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, JIT packaging and encryption. Part of the team’s responsibility is to implement and maintain various DRM server components. We also handle stream session management to granularly apply business and access logic to streamed content. We work closely with sister teams that maintain other video‑related components: Ingest & Storage, Ads Backend (our in‑house SSAI solution) and Playback.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Provide organisational leadership for the Streaming & CDN team
• Own the technical vision with the support of senior developers
• Oversee the end‑to‑end development process and 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 optimising joint processes
• Directly manage 2–4 engineers and lead the hiring process
• Grow, develop and retain engineering talent
• Contribute hands‑on to the tech stack of the team

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

• 3 years experience leading engineering teams
• Experience building highly available services and APIs that work and scale efficiently
• Experience testing on different levels and a mindset that sees testing as part of software development
• Experience working in Scrum teams
• Fluent verbal and written English and strong communication skills
• Be a role‑model leader and help others grow
• Proficient skills in C++ and/or Go programming
• Bonus: Previous experience with video streaming systems or CDNs

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

• We’re sharing: Free access to the best streaming experience on the market
• We're developing: Your own development budget, German classes and company hack days
• We’re inclusive: Zattooies are a fun, engaged and diverse team
• We’re healthy: Health checks, team sports, organic fruit, vegan options 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, 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, 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.