Senior Engineering Leader: Cloud-Native Media & AI

Paramount Group; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental & Vision

401(k)

Life insurance

Disability benefits

Tuition assistance

PTO

Job summary

Paramount Skydance Corporation leads development of cloud-native media platforms and AI-enabled workflows, directing a project-based engineering team of 3-5 resources. You translate management direction into actionable plans, maintaining delivery quality, production readiness, and hands-on design and code reviews.

You will oversee cloud-native services, media integrations, archives modernization, and content migration while ensuring security and cost controls.

Qualifications

• 8+ years hands-on software engineering experience building enterprise applications, APIs, or distributed systems.
• 4+ years managing project-based engineering teams.
• Strong development experience in Python or a comparable modern language.
• Experience building and operating cloud-native applications on AWS and/or GCP.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, security, and observability.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent engineering workstreams in a production environment.
• Demonstrated ability to select, lead, and maintain continuity across contract engineering teams.
• Strong communication skills, able to translate technical risk and trade-offs for nontechnical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Select, onboard, direct, and evaluate consultant resources; manage vendor performance, project capacity, deliverables, and structured knowledge transfer as assignments change.
• Build team depth so delivery and technical knowledge don't sit with one individual.
• Stay hands-on in solution design, code review, troubleshooting, and high-risk work.
• Translate architecture direction into technical plans, milestones, staffing, and releases.
• Own backlog management, estimation, dependencies, scope, delivery risk, and release readiness.
• Balance strategic projects, platform improvements, technical debt, and production needs.
• Communicate status, risks, and trade-offs to leadership and stakeholders.
• Partner with stakeholders to clarify requirements, define technical scope and acceptance criteria, and identify delivery risks before work begins.
• Provide day-to-day technical direction within architecture standards set by leadership.
• Set expectations for code quality, testing, APIs, documentation, security, and deployment automation.
• Promote reusable services and integrations over one-off solutions.
• Escalate significant architecture, platform, and vendor decisions to leadership.
• Maintain architectural depth and institutional knowledge to represent the team's direction when leadership is unavailable.
• Lead delivery of cloud-native services, media workflow integrations, metadata platforms, archive modernization, and content migration initiatives.
• Oversee delivery of AI-enabled capabilities for metadata enrichment, content discovery, and workflow automation, including model integration, retrieval systems, data quality, and evaluation.
• Set standards for responsible use of AI-assisted development tools; ensure AI-generated code is reviewed, tested, and documented.
• Ensure security, identity, cost, monitoring, and supportability across cloud and AI services.

Skills

Software engineering

Enterprise apps

APIs

Distributed systems

People management

Python

Cloud-native

AWS/GCP

CI/CD

IaC

Security

Observability

Contract staffing

Vendor management

Communication

Solution design

AI/ML tooling

Tools

AWS

GCP

Cursor

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Paramount Skydance Corporation leads development of cloud-native media platforms and AI-enabled workflows, directing a project-based engineering team of 3-5 resources. You translate management direction into actionable plans, maintaining delivery quality, production readiness, and hands-on design and code reviews.

You will oversee cloud-native services, media integrations, archives modernization, and content migration while ensuring security and cost controls.