Staff Engineer, Dailymotion
Tech Lead
Office located in Issy Les Moulineaux, Paris
Video streaming service
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Video streaming service
501-1000 employees
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Office located in Issy Les Moulineaux, Paris
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build the next generation of media platforms designed to inspire millions of people to grow and share a diverse and inclusive vision of the world.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive years of backend engineering experience with Python and PHP
- Some years in technical leadership roles, leading engineering teams or complex projects
- Proven experience in large-scale system migration and legacy modernization projects
- Deep understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems design
- Strong expertise in API design patterns, RESTful services, and backward compatibility
- Experience with authentication/authorization systems (OAuth, JWT, RBAC)
- Experience with database migration strategies and data modeling
- Strong system architecture and technical decision-making capabilities
- Leadership and Soft Skills:
- Strong technical leadership and mentoring capabilities
- Excellent communication skills - able to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strategic thinking and ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term vision
- Problem-solving expertise in complex, ambiguous technical environments
- Change management skills and experience leading organizational transformation
- Outstanding organizational skills and ability to manage multiple complex initiatives
- Strong level of written/verbal English
Desirable
- Experience leading internal tooling or developer productivity initiatives
- Knowledge of enterprise integration patterns and legacy system modernization
- Experience with change management in technical organizations
- Understanding of API Gateway patterns and service mesh architectures
- Experience with observability and monitoring in distributed systems
- Background in technical program management or technical strategy
- Experience working with cross-functional teams and stakeholder management
What the job involves
- As part of its strategic platform evolution, Dailymotion is strengthening its Core Platform team with a Staff Engineer - Technical Lead role
- You will lead the technical strategy and execution for internal tools migration and legacy system transition, playing a critical role in our transformation from monolithic to cloud-native microservices architecture
- You'll architect and maintain critical platform components while leading a dedicated squad focused on internal tooling migration. Your mission is to ensure seamless transition of internal systems, minimize disruption to internal teams, and establish migration patterns that can be replicated across the organization
- Working closely with Product teams, DevOps, QA and internal stakeholders, you'll drive the technical vision for legacy modernization while mentoring engineers and enabling organizational-wide transformation
- You'll be joining our strategic transformation program to modernize our platform, specifically leading the internal migration workstream that serves as the foundation for our entire technical evolution
- Technical Leadership
- Define and drive technical strategy for internal tools migration and legacy system transition
- Lead architecture decisions for internal API migration and system modernization
- Design migration patterns, frameworks, and tools that can be reused across the organization
- Establish technical standards and best practices for legacy system decommissioning
- Squad Leadership
- Lead and mentor a squad of backend engineers focused on internal migration
- Collaborate with other squad leads to ensure cohesive platform evolution
- Drive technical decision-making and resolve complex architectural challenges
- Foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement
- Migration & Modernization
- Design and execute comprehensive migration strategies for internal tools and systems
- Build compatibility layers and transition bridges for critical internal services
- Coordinate with internal teams to minimize disruption during migration phases
- Lead legacy system assessment, prioritization, and decommissioning activities
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Partner with Product teams to understand internal tooling requirements
- Work closely with other Technical Leads to ensure platform coherence
- Collaborate with DevOps and SRE teams on infrastructure transition
- Provide technical guidance and support to internal teams during migration
- Technologies:
- Languages: Python, PHP
- Messaging: RabbitMQ, Celery, NSQ
- Databases: Elasticsearch, MySQL, MongoDB
- APIs: GraphQL, aioHTTP, OpenAPI, FastAPI
- Authentication: OAuth, JWT, RBAC systems
- Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins
- Security & Config: Vault
- Observability: Datadog, distributed tracing tools
Application process
- Start Date: depending on your availabilities
Our take
In many ways, it's difficult to talk about Dailymotion without talking about YouTube, its most obvious competitor. And it is indeed worth noting that the company underwent a major change in recent years to build its own programmatic platform partially to compete more directly with its famous American counterpart.
However, the truth is the nature of modern content consumption means that Dailymotion need not obsess over YouTube’s user base. There’s enough of an audience - at least 4 billion people by some estimates - for both video-streaming giants to co-exist.
That means Dailymotion has been able to experiment with different strategies. For example, the platform indisputably has better relationships than YouTube with its corporate partners, often engaging in bespoke product development to facilitate deeper relationships.
Perhaps the biggest competitive threat for Dailymotion will be not from its rival video-streaming platform, but from entirely new forms of internet-based entertainment. Short-form video content from platforms like TikTok is already siphoning away the younger cohort of users from longer-format video providers, a trend Dailymotion will need to address in the future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2009
$25m
SERIES C
Aug 2007
$34m
SERIES B
Total funding: $68.5m
Company benefits
- 🏡Hybrid Work Framework (4 types of remote work: Full office /Flex office (1/2 days remote) / Flex remote (1/2 days at the office) / Full remote + ability to work 3 months abroad)
- 💰International Group Savings Plan offered through the Vivendi Group
- 🍼8 weeks paid Paternity leave or Co-parental leave
- 🕶️Excellent Employee Culture (Company Events / Trainings / Parties / All hands …)
- 🚀Career development support (training / career check-in with HR / internal mobility / compensation cycle / 360 quarter feedback review …)
- 🏥Company-paid Health Insurance and Personal Services Vouchers (CESU)
- 🚆Commuter benefit coverage - Public Transport and Bike refund
- ⛱️Paid Time off – RTT and Saving time plan (CET)
- ✅Meal Vouchers
- 🎡Workers representatives committee(sport membership/cinemas vouchers/gift vouchers/discount)
Company HQ
Plaine-Monceau, Paris, France
Leadership
Maxime Saada
(CEO, not founder)Became the CEO of Dailymotion in 2015. They have also worked at CANAL+ since 2004, rising through the ranks, they are now the CEO. Prior to this, they worked as an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Company.
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