Engineering Manager Ingest & Storage (Berlin, Germany)

Engineering Manager Ingest & Storage

Company Overview

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.

Zattoo is one of the leading TV streaming providers in Europe with several million monthly users, serving both B2B and DTC markets. Founded in 2005, we have more than 250 employees and are headquartered in Zurich with another location in Berlin and remote presences in Europe and North America.

With our DTC business, users in Switzerland, Germany and Austria watch a variety of TV channels as well as a selection of video-on-demand content on almost all available devices via the Zattoo apps. Since 2012, we have also been running our own B2B business, making our technology available to media companies and network operators as an international TV-as-a-Service platform.

Zattoo strives to satisfy existing customers and users and attract new ones by offering state of the art TV features with a superior user experience across many devices and platforms. For our achievements as a TV streaming pioneer, we were awarded the Technology and Engineering Emmy® Award by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for 2020, among others.

We act responsibly: We have been ClimatePartner-certified and committed to climate protection since 2021. We are taking active action to further reduce our carbon footprint. As the first TV streaming provider worldwide, we therefore even operate one of our data centres directly in a wind turbine. We are growing and we are looking for new team members. If you like space for creativity, want to feel empowered, if you prefer an atmosphere of continuous learning and trust based working then Zattoo is the right place for you. We have a culture of embracing mistakes as a measure of learning and a very respectful style of working together. At Zattoo we can be ourselves and simply do what we are best at.

Job Summary

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 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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements / Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience with video processing or streaming systems

Location

Berlin, Germany (On-site with option for remote work worldwide for up to 8 weeks per year)

Employment Type

Full Time

Salary & Benefits

• 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
• Free access to the best streaming experience on the market
• Your own development budget, German classes and Zattoo all-company hack days
• ‘Zattooies’ are a fun, engaged, and diverse team made up of 47 nationalities
• Health checks, mental wellbeing support, team sports and more!
• We are carbon neutral, an active employee Green team, discounted BVG tickets and free bike rentals
• A calendar of events with fireside chats, lunches, in-house bar, BBQ’s, monthly socials, summer party and an annual off-site event

Equal Opportunity Statement

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.