Senior Data Engineer, Dailymotion
Office located in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Video streaming service
Posted today
Video streaming service
501-1000 employees
Posted today
Office located in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering or a related field
- Proven experience designing and operating large-scale data pipelines (preferably processing petabytes of data)
- Strong expertise in GCP (BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, etc.) and experience with AWS data services
- Proficiency in Python, SQL, and one or more languages for backend/API development (e.g., Go, Java, Node.js)
- Experience building and deploying APIs for data products, especially those integrating ML/AI models
- Familiarity with modern data orchestration frameworks (e.g., Airflow, Dagster, Prefect)
- Experience working with video data and/or media pipelines is a strong plus
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset
Desirable
- Experience with AdTech or recommendation systems
- Knowledge of MLOps and model serving in production environments
- Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.) and video analysis/generation techniques (Sora, Veo,..)
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Data Engineer to join our dynamic Data & AI Engineering team
- In this role, you will design, build, and optimize large-scale data pipelines and APIs supporting advanced data products—including Machine Learning and AI-powered models
- You will primarily work on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with additional projects leveraging AWS
- Our ideal candidate is passionate about building scalable systems, enabling data-driven products (such as recommendation engines, search engines or Programmatic yield optimization algorithms), and innovating with AI (for e.g. to understand and generate videos)
- Design, Develop & Optimize Data Pipelines: Architect, implement, and manage robust, scalable data pipelines that process petabytes of data using GCP (BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, etc.) or AWS similar technology stack
- API Development for Data Products: Build and maintain APIs powering data products and services, with a focus on integration with Machine Learning and AI models (e.g. , recommendation engines, AdTech optimization engines)
- Collaborate on AI & Video Innovation: Work closely with Video motion designers and Product Managers to leverage AI for the analysis, enrichment, and generation of video content, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in video understanding and creation
- Performance & Cost Optimization: Continuously monitor, and optimize data workflows for both speed and cost efficiency at massive scale
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with product managers, ML engineers, backend engineers and other stakeholders to deliver impactful data solutions that drive business outcomes
- Mentorship: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers and promote best practices in data engineering
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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