Sr Manager, Software Engineering

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Life insurance

Disability benefits

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Bonus eligible

Job summary

Paramount is seeking a Senior Manager to lead a cloud-native media platform team delivering AI-enabled production services and workflow integrations. You will translate management direction into executable plans, own delivery, and stay hands-on in design, reviews, and high-risk work.

The role requires strong engineering leadership, excellent communication, and the ability to influence across vendors while maintaining production readiness and security standards.

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 enough architectural depth and institutional knowledge to represent the team's technical direction independently 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, in partnership with architects and AI engineers.
• Set standards for responsible use of AI-assisted development tools; ensure AI-generated code is reviewed, tested, and documented to normal engineering and security standards.
• Ensure appropriate attention to security, identity, cost, monitoring, and supportability across cloud and AI services.
• Own production readiness and engineering support for services built by the team.
• Ensure monitoring, runbooks, deployment procedures, rollback plans, and escalation paths are in place.
• Lead root-cause analysis and corrective action for recurring defects and reliability issues.
• Maintain clear boundaries between frontline operational support and engineering escalation.

Skills

8+ years software engineering

4+ years team management

Python

AWS/GCP

CI/CD

IaC

Observability

_multi-stream management_

Vendor leadership

Communication

Tools

AWS

GCP

Job description

#WeAreParamount on a mission to unleash the power of content… you in?

We’ve got the brands, we’ve got the stars, we’ve got the power to achieve our mission to entertain the planet – now all we’re missing is… YOU! Becoming a part of Paramount means joining a team of passionate people who not only recognize the power of content but also enjoy a touch of fun and uniqueness. Together, we co-create moments that matter – both for our audiences and our employees – and aim to leave a positive mark on culture.

Overview

Reporting to team leadership, this role manages a project-based team of 3-5 resources building cloud-native media platforms, workflow automation, integrations, and AI-driven production services.

The Senior Manager translates management's technical direction into executable engineering plans and owns day-to-day delivery, implementation quality, and production readiness. The role stays hands-on in solution design, code review, and high-risk work, and serves as a senior day-to-day technical lead, maintaining continuity of execution and technical direction.

Basic 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, with sound judgment under strain and the ability to influence across teams and vendors without direct authority.

Core Responsibilities

Engineering & People Leadership

• 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.

Engineering Delivery

• 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.

Technical Leadership

• 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 enough architectural depth and institutional knowledge to represent the team's technical direction independently when leadership is unavailable.

AI Platform & Cloud Engineering

• 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, in partnership with architects and AI engineers.
• Set standards for responsible use of AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent); ensure AI-generated code is reviewed, tested, and documented to normal engineering and security standards.
• Ensure appropriate attention to security, identity, cost, monitoring, and supportability across cloud and AI services.

Production Ownership

• Own production readiness and engineering support for services built by the team.
• Ensure monitoring, runbooks, deployment procedures, rollback plans, and escalation paths are in place.
• Lead root-cause analysis and corrective action for recurring defects and reliability issues.
• Maintain clear boundaries between frontline operational support and engineering escalation.

Additional Desired Experience

• Experience with MAM/PAM platforms, metadata management, transcoding, workflow orchestration, or archive systems.
• Familiarity with broadcast or enterprise media asset management platforms.
• Experience with large-scale content migration and enterprise system integration.
• Experience supporting software platforms in a 24/7 broadcast, media, or other mission-critical environment.

Paramount Skydance Corporation (NASDAQ: PSKY) is a leading global media and entertainment company that creates premium content and experiences for audiences worldwide. Driven by iconic studios, networks and streaming services, Paramount's portfolio of consumer brands includes CBS, Showtime Networks, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount+, and Pluto TV, among others. Paramount delivers the largest share of the U.S. television audience and boasts one of the industry's most important and extensive libraries of TV and film titles. In addition to offering innovative streaming services and digital video products, the company provides powerful capabilities in production, distribution and advertising solutions.

Additional Information

Hiring Salary Range: $150,000.00 - 185,000.00.

The hiring salary range for this position applies to New York City, California, Colorado, Washington state, and most other geographies. Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education.

The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance program and PTO or, if applicable, as otherwise dictated by the appropriate Collective Bargaining Agreement. This position is bonus eligible.

What We Offer:

• Attractive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages. Check out our full list of benefits here: https://www.paramount.com/careers/benefits
• Generous paid time off.
• An exciting and fulfilling opportunity to be part of one of Paramount’s most dynamic teams.
• Opportunities for both on-site and virtual engagement events.
• Unique opportunities to make meaningful connections and build a vibrant community, both inside and outside the workplace.
• Explore life at Paramount: https://www.paramount.com/careers/life-at-paramount

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

At Paramount, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do, on-screen and off. From the programming and movies we create to employee benefits/programs and social impact outreach initiatives, we believe that opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all. Paramount is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, and Veteran status.

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