The opportunity
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What you'll do
Set technical strategy and architecture for media infrastructure across: multiple teams, aligning investment with product and business priorities.
Lead, coach, and grow other managers and senior technical leads, and create: an environment where engineers can do their best work.
Partner with Product, Design, Trust, and other infrastructure orgs to shape a: resilient, scalable media platform roadmap.
Champion engineering excellence and operational rigor, and resolve systemic: technical debt affecting reliability, performance, or velocity.
Retain, grow, and hire a diverse team of high-performing engineers and: managers to execute an ambitious media platform vision.
+ years of industry experience, with a minimum of 6+ years in engineering: management, including managing other managers or senior technical leads.
What they're looking for
- Bachelor's and/or Master's degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
- Deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems, with a track record of: setting technical strategy and architecture across multiple teams; media/content infrastructure experience (ingestion, processing, storage, CDN delivery) is a strong plus.
- Strong product instinct and communication skills, with proven experience: influencing senior cross-functional and cross-organizational partners to deliver high-quality, user-facing platform capabilities.
- Track record of leading and shipping large, cross-team initiatives with: significant business impact, and building a culture of operational excellence, quality, and reliability.