Senior Engineering Manager, Panopto
EMEA
£126-136k
+ Eligible for a bonus
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
Senior and Expert level
London
Remote in London
Video capture, streaming, search, and archiving solutions
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Video capture, streaming, search, and archiving solutions
101-200 employees
B2BContentDigital MediaSaaSVideo
Be an early applicant
£126-136k
+ Eligible for a bonus
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
Senior and Expert level
London
Remote in London
101-200 employees
B2BContentDigital MediaSaaSVideo
Company mission
Committed to designing smarter ways to work and learn with video.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience combined with 8+ years of professional engineering experience on complex distributed systems, including 4+ years of direct people management experience leading senior, staff, or principal engineers
- Proficiency with software development in languages such as Javascript, Python, C#, or Java, alongside architecture expertise in distributed, high-availability production environments
- Applied experience leveraging modern AI-first engineering practices and agentic development environments (e.g., Claude Code) to increase team velocity
What the job involves
- To enhance our team, we are seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Manager who brings strong people leadership, technical vision, and an AI-first operational strategy to our EMEA engineering organization
- In this role, you will lead the technical strategy, organizational growth, and delivery execution for our engineering domain
- As a Senior Engineering Manager, you drive technical strategy, organizational capability, and operational execution for video creation, upload, broadcast, processing, editing, and viewing systems that power video knowledge management for global universities and businesses
- You will lead senior, staff, and principal engineers, aligning technical roadmaps with executive business objectives to build and scale distributed, high-performance systems supporting high reliability, system performance, and low latency
- You will bridge high-velocity product delivery with robust engineering standards, ensuring our platforms are reliable, maintainable, and built on clarity over complexity
- Driving an AI-first operational strategy, you will embed modern automation alongside agentic development environments (such as Claude Code) into engineering workflows, automated testing, and telemetry to eliminate repetitive tasks, accelerate delivery speed, increase pull request review speed without lowering code quality, and optimize engineering efficiency across complex software architectures
- You'll also have opportunities to contribute to other initiatives that directly advance our core values and support you in elevating your craft
- People Leadership & Organizational Design: Lead, develop, and mentor an engineering organization composed of senior, staff, and principal individual contributors. Build scalable team structures, establish clear career pathways, and drive workforce planning to increase engineering capacity
- Technical Strategy & Roadmap Execution: Establish and execute technical roadmaps for distributed, high-performance systems. Drive architectural decisions that guarantee reliability, low latency, and system scalability
- AI-First Operational Integration: Embed modern AI tools and automation into the engineering lifecycle. Use an AI-first approach to software development (e.g., AI-DLC) to accelerate team velocity and improve service resiliency
- Cross-Functional Alignment & Stakeholder Management: Coordinate delivery and technical trade-offs with executive stakeholders, product leadership, and cross-functional teams. Translate complex technical concepts into clear business risks and opportunities
- Within 3 Months: Complete onboarding across our codebases, build direct relationships with your team, evaluate current engineering workflows, and establish baseline AI-assisted tooling adoption
- Within 6 Months: Optimize pipeline delivery velocity, standardize system observability metrics, and drive quarterly roadmap execution for key features
- Within 1 Year: Establish a high-performing EMEA engineering unit, reduce platform incident resolution times through AI-driven telemetry, and deliver scalable infrastructure supporting core user growth targets
- Your Legacy: Build a resilient, modern engineering organization and platform architecture that powers global video learning seamlessly for millions of daily users
- Customer First, Always: You proactively surface friction points in the customer experience before they are escalated — and propose solutions, not just reports
- Thrive Together: You share work-in-progress for early feedback, knowing that challenge improves the outcome. You separate critiques of ideas from critiques of people
- Elevate the Craft: You hold the bar high on your own work and invest in developing those around you. You treat every project as an opportunity to learn something new
- Act with Ownership: You define success by outcomes, not activity. You flag problems early and bring a proposed path forward, not just the problem
- Clarity Over Complexity: You default to the simpler solution. Your written communication — internal or external — is direct, specific, and free of filler
- You’ll work alongside a high-caliber group of engineers with deep domain expertise across cloud architecture, distributed systems, media processing, and DevOps
- Your direct team is composed of seasoned senior, staff, and principal engineers who drive critical platform architecture, while you collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Infrastructure leaders to scale our global video platform
Application process
- Application Review -> Recruiter Call -> Video Interview & Assessment -> Hiring Manager Call -> Interview Loop -> Debrief -> Offer
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The concept for Panopto developed in the early noughties when the founders noticed that storing videos on computer hard drives was becoming cheaper than storing them on tape. The company’s foundation was a free software paid support service that provided the tools for downloading videos onto a computer. Nearly two decades later, Panopto provides educational institutions and enterprise businesses with screencasting, lecture recording, streaming and video content management software.
Panopto’s modern platform offers clients in education, aviation, telecoms, and healthcare, among others, an all-in-one video platform for creating and publishing video content. Its audience engagement tools, alongside GenAI video production software (through the acquisition of Elai), keep the company in step with modern innovations in content production.
Panopto continues to grow its reach and, in 2024, launched a cloud hosting service in Japan and acquired cloud hosting and GenAI startups to fuel its growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Led by a woman
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2016
$42.8m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jan 2011
$4m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $48.5m
Company benefits
- Time Off Benefits - Generous and flexible leave policies. Unlimited Take What You Need PTO, including sick days for when you need it most. Holidays to celebrate with loved ones. Extended bereavement program to support you during difficult times. Tenured Leave opportunities for long-term employees to recharge and reflect. Extended Maternity and Paternity Leave to cherish family moments. Volunteer time off to give back to your community
- Core Benefits - At Panopto, we prioritize both professional growth and a fulfilling,balanced life for our employees. Our core benefits include comprehensive health, dental, vision, life and ancillary insurance plans. We provide access to a benefits preview to understand how Panopto benefits would support you and short-term and long-term disability insurance for peace of mind
- Retirement and Savings Benefits - 401k plan with company match to secure your financial future. Healthcare spending and reimbursement accounts for your well-being
- Healthful Living Benefits - At Panopto we understand well being is about more than physical health. We’re proud to offer workplace perks such as daily mental health break walks, a wellness rewards program to support your well-being, an employee assistance program for confidential support and a mindfulness program for stress reduction
- Remote Work Benefits - Enjoy all the benefits of a remote-first workplace that supports full work from home for ultimate flexibility. Childcare schedule flexibility to balance work and family life. Asynchronous work to accommodate your unique schedule
- Rewards, Recognition, and Employee Perks - Our great team is Panopto’s most valuable asset. We’re proud to offer an employee recognition program to celebrate your achievements, a Values Awards program to embody our company culture and referral bonuses for bringing great talent to Panopto
- Career Development Benefits - Panopto’s career tracks and competency and skills training will help you advance your career. We offer access to the LinkedIn Learning Program to expand your knowledge, AWS services and architecture training to stay ahead, and secure coding training to enhance your skills
Company HQ
North Shore, Pittsburgh, PA
Leadership
Andrew Herning
(CFO)Previously Senior VP of Finance at Billtrust, CFO at UniTek Global Services, Inc. and American Standard.
Stephen Laster
(CEO)Previously President of D2L, was the Strategic Advisor to the CEO at Ellucian and was the Chief Digital and Learning Officer at Penn Foster.
Amy Clark
(COO)Previously the Chief People Officer at D2L, was a Senior Vice President at Colliers and Manulife.
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