Senior Engineering Manager (Video Enablement)

Role Overview

As a Senior Engineering Manager (Video Enablement) at GameChanger, you will lead the video enablement team, own the core video experience, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to deliver a resilient, scalable live and VOD streaming platform.

Key Missions

• Manage the video enablement team and oversee the end-to-end video pipeline.
• Collaborate on the video streaming roadmap with product and engineering stakeholders, contributing technical direction.
• Lead core video capabilities (design, build, and ongoing support) while continuously measuring and improving streaming quality for live and VOD.
• Maintain a resilient video pipeline in AWS to support large-scale usage.
• Hire, grow, and mentor engineers, acting as a hands-on player-coach.

Requirements

• Strong foundation in software engineering principles and cloud architecture for resilient, scalable video infrastructure (AWS).
• Demonstrated engineering leadership with a track record delivering in video/audio streaming, including live streaming and user-generated content.
• Ability to influence through ideas with a collaborative, trust-building leadership style.
• Strategic thinking and ability to contribute to long-term engineering vision.
• Excellent communicator who can bridge technical depth and stakeholder clarity.
• User-obsessed mindset, focused on the experience of people watching the stream.
• Comfortable with remote-first, async-by-default collaboration and proactive written communication.
• Creates psychological safety and fosters a learning-oriented culture (e.g., postmortems without blame).

Nice-to-Haves

• Coding experience in video-related languages such as Go, Rust, or C#.
• Familiarity with Node.js/TypeScript, React, and/or mobile languages like Kotlin or Swift.
• Curiosity about video technology evolution and ability to bring relevant ideas without chasing trends.