GameChanger - Senior Engineering Manager, Video Enablement

• Strong background in video and audio streaming, with hands-on experience in user-generated content and live streaming technologies, and a proven track record of delivering projects in that space. • A leadership style rooted in collaboration, someone who earns trust by listening first, understands the existing landscape before suggesting changes, and influences through ideas rather than authority. • Solid understanding of software engineering principles and cloud architecture in a resilient, scalable video infrastructure environment (we use AWS). • Ability to think strategically and contribute to the long-term vision of the engineering team along with your leadership partners in the space. • Comfort operating as a player-coach: you're not writing code every day, but you're close enough to the work to be credible, helpful, and a genuine resource to your team. • Experience coding in languages common in the video space (Go, Rust, C#) is a plus, as is familiarity with Node/TypeScript, React, or mobile languages like Kotlin or Swift. • A proven engineering leader with a track record of delivering in the video streaming space, doing it with your team, not just through them. • Energized by high visibility and high stakes. Our platform handles millions of live streams and hundreds of millions of clips annually, and a lot of people across the org depend on what we build. • Someone who sees a strong existing team and culture as an asset to build on, not a blank slate to redesign. • An excellent communicator who can bridge technical depth and stakeholder clarity without losing either. • Genuinely user-obsessed - you care about the experience on the other end of the stream. • Curious and current: you follow the evolution of video technology and bring relevant ideas to the table without chasing trends for their own sake. • Someone who creates an environment where engineers feel safe saying "I don't know" and where postmortems are about learning, not blame. • Comfortable with a remote-first, async-by-default culture - you communicate proactively in writing, don't need a meeting to make progress, and trust others to do the same. • How We Work: • We are a fully remote team of 5-9 engineers building and running video infrastructure, APIs, and SDKs that other teams utilize and depend on. We take that seriously. • We run two-week sprints with async daily standups in Slack, weekly refinement, and three syncs a week (two during planning weeks). We have a strong bias toward async-first communication and only pull people into meetings when it actually makes sense. When we do meet, it counts. • Our platform runs 24x7, and when something goes wrong we're all in it together, leaders included. We don't have a formal on-call rotation for managers, but we expect our leaders to be engaged and present when production issues arise, and to pitch in when the team needs them. • When things don't go as planned, we run blameless postmortems focused on learning and improving, not pointing fingers. Nobody on this team is afraid to say "I don't know", that's a feature, not a bug. • We also know that great teams are built on more than just good work. Every two weeks we connect for a remote game night. It's a small thing that means a lot to us. • If you're looking for a high-impact team that's genuinely invested in each other, the product, and doing things the right way, we'd love to talk.