Director of Data Engineering, Brightcove
$177.2-265.8k
Leading cloud-based online video platform
Job no longer available
Leading cloud-based online video platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$177.2-265.8k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To break through to audiences everywhere by offering powerful video solutions for marketing, enterprise communications, and more.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or similar discipline. Advanced degree is a plus
- 10+ years of experience in Data Engineering or Engineering fields with increasing responsibility and strong track record of technical competencies and business strategy, both as an individual contributor and managing teams
- 5+ years of experience in building, managing, and leading a high-performing top talent data engineering team
- Video streaming experience across OTT, Live and Video on Demand platforms is highly desired
- Experience with video streaming monetization platforms and data driven decision making for AVOD, SVOD, TVOD, FAST and Ad optimization is highly desired
- Ability to develop and execute roadmaps and state-of-the-art data platforms to drive and support decisions and initiative across the organization
- Track record of implementing and scaling secure data platform for startups, enterprise or large/public companies
- Strengths in at least a few programming languages - Python, Java, Scala
- Expertise in building and managing large volume data processing (both streaming and batch) platforms
- Expertise in scaling data environments with distributed/RT systems, e.g. Apache Spark, Flink, and self-serve visualization environments
- Expertise in cloud based and SaaS data warehouse (e.g. AWS/GCP, Snowflake, NoSQL) and developing ETL/ELT pipelines
- Experience integrating and building data platform in support of BI (Tableau/Looker), Analytics, Data Science, and real-time applications
- Thrive on empowering team members and view the team's success as own
- Expertise in stream processing systems such as Kafka, Kinesis, Pulsar or Similar is a plus
- Experience in building micro services and managing containerized deployments, preferably using Kubernetes
- Experience with agile methodologies
What the job involves
- The Data Engineering team designs, develops and operates big data services and tools to provide reporting and analytics for our customers and for the business from concept to delivery. We do this on a massive scale, capturing billions of events a day from our video players across the globe
- Our team is responsible for deploying to production while delivering differentiated value to our customers
- We are seeking a seasoned leader and data practitioner with strong technical depth to drive engineering platforms, initiatives and partnerships across the company. In this role reporting to the SVP, Head of Data, you will be responsible for leading an organizational effort to build and scale state-of-the-art data platforms to solve various data-driven business use cases and needs
- These data platforms will be powering data products and data initiatives across the company, including Video, Billing, Financials, Ad Monetization, Audience Insights, Product Analytics, Marketing, Customer Success and Personalization
- Hire, develop, motivate, inspire and lead a team of top talent data engineers and architects
- Develop, architect, propose, integrate and implement core data engineering, business intelligence, and data warehouse frameworks, systems, tools, roadmaps, goals, and best practices in support of key company data initiatives
- Provide technical thought leadership to cross-functional stakeholders and leaders to ensure team priorities and output directly impacts company strategy, direction and growth
- Provide technical and architectural oversight for systems and projects that are required to be reliable, massively scalable, highly available (99.999% uptime) and maintainable
- Champion security and governance and ensure data engineering team adheres to all company guidelines
- Manage data infrastructure/cloud cost and responsible for improving efficiency and performance
- Introduce best practices and principles to enable consistent delivery and enable alignment with long term direction
- Communicate effectively and present to all levels of the organization and to technical and non-technical audiences
- Develop deep partnership with cross-functional teams with varying backgrounds, from the highly technical to the highly creatives
Our take
Brightcove enables content creators to gain additional revenue from their online video products through new distribution and analytics opportunities. Its services generate a cash flow by allowing advertisers to purchase sponsorship bumpers and watermarks. But that's just the start; the firm is also drawing in customers as a cutting-edge analytics platform.
The company now operates in more than 60 countries and is developing new strategies that enhance current offerings and create opportunities to expand existing businesses. The latter includes the 2023-launched Brightcove Communication Studios, a platform that helps teams better communicate and engage with internal stakeholders as well as an Ad Monetisation service for client companies.
Brightcove now works with customers across a range of sectors and industries, including BBC, Adobe, Ford, Forbes, and Premier League and continues to spoil its customers with new features and incentives.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Apr 2010
$12m
SERIES D
May 2008
$4m
SERIES D
Total funding: $157.2m
Company benefits
- Nourishment: Catered lunches and fully-stocked kitchens around the globe, you’ll never go hungry here!
- Financial Wellness: Plan for the future with our competitive compensation packages, 401K matching, and recognition awards.
- Employee Experience: It’s not all about work. From poker games to summer happy hours (virtual and in-person), and epic Halloween parties—we bring the fun.
- Learning & Development: You’ll solve challenging problems daily here. And to help you do that we’ve got tuition reimbursement programs, mentoring partnerships, and regular meetups like our Women in Technology initiative.
- Giving Back: We’re all about making an impact on local communities, so we encourage employees to take volunteer time off and match charitable donations up to $100.
- Health: Outstanding health and wellness benefits help you nourish body and soul so you can be your best self.
- Time Off: Refresh, recharge, and keep work and life in balance with our generous vacation benefits, including unlimited PTO and half-day Fridays!
Company HQ
Fort Point Channel Landmark District, Boston, MA
Leadership
Marc DeBevoise
(CEO)Experienced Executive with over 15 years in senior roles. They are currently an Executive Producer at Horizon: An American Saga, an Advisory Board Member at Antenna, and a Board President at The Door.
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