YOUR FUTURE, ON DEMAND
The ideal blend of stability and flexibility. A genuinely human employer that cares for people and the planet. True autonomy to shape what comes next, for us and you. This is the perfect platform to take your career where you want.
Back in 2005, we pioneered Europe’s first TV streaming service. Today, we’re the world’s first certified climate neutral TV streaming provider. Several million users across three countries. Over 230 colleagues of 47 nationalities. We’re the grown-up start-up, helping to shape a better future since day one. That hasn’t changed, even if the world has. We’re friendly, international, inclusive – and our people say we’re reliable and transparent, too. It’s why they trust us and believe in what we do.
THE ROLE
Video is the heart of all Zattoo’s services. We build and operate a platform that carries thousands of 24/7 live TV channels, as well as on-demand content from dozens of providers. The systems to stream all that content and manage the stream sessions for all users is built and maintained by our highly skilled Streaming & CDN team.
As Engineer Manager, your role is to enable your team to do their best. As a leader, you should be approachable, thoughtful, listen well, and facilitate an easy exchange of ideas, knowledge, and practices. You should bring your own ideas on how to further optimize the architecture and help extend the capabilities of our system every day. You should be curious about the inner workings of our video encoding and streaming, and be able to think and operate at scale.
THE STREAMING & CDN TEAM
The team creates the streams that are directly accessed by our end users, for all content that is ingested to our platform. It develops our Smart CDN and makes sure that Quality of Experience stays as high as possible, keeping reliability as the highest priority. The Smart CDN consists of a distributed CDN architecture of in-house software components that does advanced caching and JIT packaging and encryption.
Part of the team’s responsibility is to implement and maintain various DRM system server components. We also handle stream session management to granularly apply business and access logic to streamed content.
We work closely with several “sister teams” which maintain other video-related components: Ingest & Storage, Ads Backend (they build our in-house SSAI solution) and Playback.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Provide organizational leadership for the Streaming & CDN team
- Own the technical vision with the support of the senior developers
- Oversee the end-to-end development process. Ensure the team delivers high-quality, reliable, scalable, and maintainable solutions
- Constantly raise the bar on quality and best practices
- Represent the team and support stakeholders with technical expertise
- Work hand in hand with other engineering managers and reduce complexity by optimizing joint processes
- Directly manage 2-4 engineers, lead the hiring process
- Grow, develop and retain engineering talents
- Contribute hands-on to the tech stack of the team
WHAT YOU’LL BRING
- 3 years experience in leading engineering teams
- Experience in building highly available services and APIs that work and scale efficiently
- Experience in testing on different levels and a mindset that sees testing as a fundamental part of software development
- Experience working in Scrum teams
- Fluent verbal and written English language and communication skills
- Be a role model leader and help others to grow
- Proficient skills in C++ and/or Go programming
- Bonus: Previous experience with video streaming systems or CDNs
WHY JOIN US?
At Zattoo, you’re always on firm ground with real freedom to explore. You’ll have the support and opportunity you need to go far, while you’re helping us create a sustainable and entertainment-filled future for all.
WHAT WE OFFER YOU
- Reward: strong market competitive salary
- Recharge: 30 days vacation plus public holidays
- Regulate:trust based flexible working hours and the option for remote work worldwide for up to 8 weeks per year
Plus:
- We’re sharing: Free access to the best streaming experience on the market
- We're developing: Your own development budget, German classes and Zattoo all-company hack days
- We’re inclusive: ‘Zattooies’ are a fun, engaged, and diverse team made up of 47 nationalities
- We’re healthy: Health checks, team sports, organic fruit, vegan options and more!
- We’re responsible: We are carbon neutral, an active employee Green team, discounted BVG tickets and free bike rentals
- We’re sociable: A calendar of events with fireside chats, lunches, in-house bar, BBQ’s, monthly socials, summer party and an annual off-site event
Zattoo enables our users to view indiscriminately and we reflect that in our team too. Regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, disability or any other characteristic protected by law we encourage everyone to apply and will give everyone equal consideration. We are an equal opportunities employer, join us and help build a diverse team dedicated to the future of TV.
You can learn more about us at: https://zattoo.com
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What We Do
We are one of the leading TV streaming providers in Europe with several million monthly users, serving both B2B and DTC markets. Founded in 2005, we have more than 250 employees and are headquartered in Zurich with another location in Berlin and remote presences in Europe and North America. With our DTC business, users in Switzerland, Germany and Austria watch a variety of TV channels as well as a selection of video-on-demand content on almost all available devices via the Zattoo apps. Since 2012, we have also been running our own B2B business, making our technology available to media companies and network operators as an international TV-as-a-Service platform. Zattoo strives to satisfy existing customers and users and attract new ones by offering state of the art TV features with a superior user experience across many devices and platforms. For our achievements as a TV streaming pioneer, we were awarded the Technology and Engineering Emmy® Award by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for 2020, among others. We act responsibly: We have been carbon neutral since 2020. We are taking active action to further reduce our carbon footprint. As the first TV streaming provider worldwide, we therefore even operate one of our data centres directly in a wind turbine. We are growing and we are looking for new team members. If you like space for creativity, want to feel empowered, if you prefer an atmosphere of continuous learning and trust based working then Zattoo is the right place for you. We have a culture of embracing mistakes as a measure of learning and a very respectful style of working together. At Zattoo we can be ourselves and simply do what we are best at
