Senior Engineering Manager, Mux
$230-280k
Online video infrastructure
Job no longer available
Online video infrastructure
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$230-280k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To democratize video by solving the hard problems developers face when building video.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years of leadership experience managing technical teams
- Expertise in scaling and operating distributed systems running on cloud infrastructure, with a strong understanding of site reliability, service-levels, incident management, CI/CD, and automation
- Adept at driving decisions and aligning stakeholders in ambiguous or high-stakes situations, particularly when facing conflicting priorities or constraints
- Possess an entrepreneurial mindset—self-directed, innovative, and biased toward action. You thrive in building new things and excel in navigating ambiguity
- Strong communication skills, capable of collaborating across a remote-first organization and effectively conveying complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Passionate about mentorship and team development, with a track record of motivating and uniting cross-functional teams
- Experienced in leading both execution and cultural transformation initiatives
- Experience in media & video technologies is a plus but not required
What the job involves
- The Senior Engineering Manager of Mux Video will lead and grow the product engineering teams responsible for developing and operating the Mux Video product
- You will play a key role in shaping the technical strategy in close partnership with the product team, driving the execution of the product roadmap
- Additionally, you will contribute to the scaling of our engineering organization, fostering a culture of growth and technical excellence
- You will guide your team through complex technical challenges across our globally distributed architecture, which handles thousands of requests per second and petabytes of content
- You’ll help set the technical direction of our platform and collaborate with the broader engineering organization to continuously improve how we build and operate software
- Lead the product engineering team responsible for building and running the Mux Video product, delivering all aspects of live and on-demand streaming: ingestion, encoding, storage, CDN delivery, and caching
- Foster a culture of psychological safety, inclusivity, and excellence, ensuring a high-performing and empowered team
- Oversee capacity planning, performance margins, and cost optimization for the services your team owns
- Collaborate closely with engineering leadership peers to support org-wide technical initiatives and evolve our technical strategy
- Represent Mux externally on technical topics relevant to your team, particularly in conversations with strategic partners and vendors
- Hire, retain, and develop top engineering talent, focusing on both technical growth and leadership development
- Drive the execution and accountability of projects, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery
- Advocate for operational best practices, ensuring availability, reliability, production readiness, and proactive management of technical debt
- Develop the technical and product strategy in collaboration with technical leads and product partners
Our take
Mux is a performance analytics service for video developers and media publishers that has a goal to improve the quality of experience for online video viewers.
It provides online video publishers with the data needed for tackling common issues in order to build better video experiences, visualized in a powerful analytics dashboard backed by machine learning.
Companies like The New York Times, IGN and PBS, which collectively publish more than 100 videos a day, use Mux to measure baselines and video player performance in real-time.
With video streaming seeing steady growth in recent times, Mux Video’s revenues have been growing at a pace of 8x, making it one of the fastest-growing enterprise SaaS companies on the market.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-37% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2021
$105m
SERIES D
Aug 2020
$37m
SERIES C
Total funding: $174m
Company benefits
- Flexible PTO - We encourage a healthy work-life balance
- Healthcare - Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
- Commuter Benefits - We want to help take the stress out of your commute
- Professional Development Stipend - For your continuous learning and growth
- Catered meals - Plus snacks and (good) coffee
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Steve Heffernan
(Co-Founder)A video technology enthusiast with experience in developer product design, creator of other video products including Video.js and Zencoder.
Jon Dahl
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founder of Zencoder, acquired by Brightcove, where they served as VP of Technology, with experience in software development.
Adam Brown
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experienced software developer, serving as a senior software engineer at Brightcove before cofounding Mux in 2016.
Matthew McClure
(Co-Founder)The organizer of the Demuxed conference and the SF video technology meetup. Their background lies in software engineering.
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