Job Description Engineering Manager - Video Location: Berlin (Hybrid) Sector: Video Streaming / OTT Platform Engineering A leading European video streaming platform is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for ingesting, processing, and storing large-scale live and on-demand video content. The platform delivers thousands of live channels and on-demand assets to millions of users, requiring highly scalable and reliable video infrastructure. This role combines technical leadership and people management, guiding a team responsible for video ingestion pipelines, encoding workflows, and distributed storage systems. The Role You will lead a team responsible for the systems that capture, encode, and store live television and VOD content at scale. These systems form the foundation of a large-scale streaming platform. You will enable the team to deliver reliable and scalable video processing systems while driving technical improvements to architecture and workflows. Key Responsibilities Provide leadership for a team responsible for video ingest and storage infrastructure Define and evolve the technical architecture with senior engineers Oversee the development of scalable, reliable software systems Improve engineering standards, quality, and best practices Support cross-team collaboration with streaming, playback, and advertising platform teams Manage and mentor engineers, including hiring and career development Represent the team to internal stakeholders and product leadership What We’re Looking For Experience managing software engineering teams (3 years) Strong background building highly available distributed systems and APIs Experience working within agile/Scrum environments Strong communication and leadership skills Passion for mentoring engineers and growing teams Nice to have Experience with video processing, encoding, or streaming systems Exposure to large-scale media infrastructure