Engineering Manager, Panopto
Content Creation
$170-185k
+ Bonus
Video capture, streaming, search, and archiving solutions
Be an early applicant
Video capture, streaming, search, and archiving solutions
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-185k
+ Bonus
101-200 employees
Company mission
Committed to designing smarter ways to work and learn with video.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for someone who loves solving interesting technical challenges at scale and enabling compelling customer experiences
- Ideal candidates have a strong attention to detail and desire to get to the bottom of how things work, a drive to take action and improve things where they can, and a natural focus on ensuring an excellent customer experience
- If you’re interested in working on a rapidly evolving system loaded with interesting challenges and complex problems, we want to talk to you
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field or an equivalent amount of experience or training in industry
- Multiple years of experience working on complex projects in a professional environment, preferably with a focus on JavaScript-powered web applications
- Strong experience with technologies like Node.js, React, MongoDB or similar
- People management for teams of 4+ engineers, including senior and staff/principal-level ICs
- Running operations for highly available (tier one) services. Best practices for logging, metrics, monitoring, real-time debugging/diagnostics, and alarming
- Project management, stakeholder communication, and communication with non-technical teams
- Technical expertise in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP
- Technical expertise in distributed and scalable system architecture
- Technical expertise in development infrastructure and automation frameworks
- Learning, technical curiosity, ability to rapidly build expertise in new areas and new technical stacks
What the job involves
- As we continue to support growth and expansion, we are seeking an experienced Manager to lead our Content Generation Team
- As the Engineering Manager of the Content Generation team, you will lead a team of 5-6 developers and will collaborate closely with your Product Management peer
- You will be responsible for ensuring our core AI models and content pipelines are built robustly, securely, and scale to meet our quickly growing product
- You will manage communications with product and research teams, ensuring Panopto keeps pace with advancements in Generative AI technology
- Management and Hiring: Manage and grow an experienced team with multiple senior/principal engineers
- You will define and execute a hiring plan for your org that will allow the team to meet the needs of our rapidly growing business and allow everyone on the team to contribute their highest and best impact
- You will also mentor and drive the growth of the talented engineers on your team
- AI Content Generation & ML Engineering: experience and knowledge of software engineering, technical architecture, and machine learning systems for content generation (e.g., text, audio, video) will allow you to lead efforts to identify, prioritize, and improve architectural problems that exist in the current codebase, with a focus on model serving, performance, latency, and quality of generated content
- You will provide guidance and a plan for maturing our codebase and systems to allow our teams and the engineering organization to efficiently grow
- Technical Leadership & Delivery: You will work hands-on with senior and principal engineers on system architecture, technical decision-making, and roadmap execution across AI/ML and platform components
- This includes shaping architectural patterns, breaking down complex initiatives into executable plans, and ensuring effective task distribution and delivery across teams
- You will stay close to implementation through design reviews, code reviews, and technical deep dives, and partner on DevOps, reliability, and performance improvements to support scalable, production-grade AI systems
- You’ll manage a team of talented engineers with a variety of areas of expertise, from devops to tooling, integrations and testing. The team’s experience level ranges from seasoned developers with well over a decade in industry to junior developers who are growing their roles and impact with your mentorship
Application process
- From crafting an impressive resume to presenting your best self during our interviews, we're dedicated to ensuring you feel well-prepared and self-assured as you embark on opportunities at Panopto. Discover some valuable recruiting tips from our team
- The standard interview process at Panopto involves several steps, outlined below, to ensure we approach the process thoughtfully and consistently: Application Review -> Recruiter Call -> Video Interview & Assessment -> Hiring Manager Call -> Interview Loop -> Debrief -> Offer
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 foundations were in 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 within the content production sector.
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.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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
Jason Beem
(CEO)Previously Interim CRO at Advantive, COO at Stackline, Operating Executive at ST6 and Senior Vice President at Accruent.
Andrew Herning
(CFO)Previously Senior VP of Finance at Billtrust, CFO at UniTek Global Services, Inc. and American Standard.
Amit Mondal
(CTO)Previously worked as Group Vice President of Development at PowerSchool Group, was an Official Member of the Forbes Technology Council, Senior VP at SumTotal Systems and was the Director at Oracle.
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