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Video is the heart of all services: thousands of 24/7 live TV channels plus on-demand content from dozens of providers. The Ads Backend team turns that content into a personalised, revenue-generating advertising experience.
As an Engineering Manager, you enable your team to do their best work: approachable, a good listener, and a strong facilitator of ideas and knowledge. You bring your own ideas for improving the architecture and extending what our systems can do.
This is a hands-on leadership role. We want a manager who is also a strong engineer, someone who acts as technical lead, dives into the code and architecture when it matters, and sets direction by example.
Ads Backend is your home base, not the limit of your influence. We expect you to collaborate deeply with the Ingest & Storage, Streaming & CDN, and Playback teams, help define the technical direction of video across Zattoo, and join cross-team initiatives.
THE ADS BACKEND TEAM
The team owns In-house Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI) solution: the whole ad pipeline, from deciding which ads to show to tracking every impression, built as a suite of services serving viewers at scale. These are business-critical services with a direct revenue impact, and we collaborate closely with our sister teams (Ingest & Storage, Streaming & CDN, Playback) and commercial and ad operations stakeholders.
We’re about to take SSAI to the next level: a major re-architecture. It’s the team’s flagship challenge ahead, and one we want this hire to help lead from the front.
Requirements
- 5+ years leading engineering teams
- Strong, current hands-on engineering: you can design, build, and review production code and act as technical lead
- Proficient in C++/Go
- Experience building highly available services and APIs that scale
- Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures and message queues (e.g. Kafka), and non-relational databases (e.g. Scylla)
- Testing is a fundamental part of how you build software
- Experience with advertising technology platforms, ad serving, and dynamic ad insertion (DAI/SSAI)
- Broad experience across the video pipeline (ingest, transcoding, packaging, DRM, streaming, playback)
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