- Set the technical strategy and roadmap for the Media Platform
- Lead the design and evolution of high-volume, event-driven services using AWS technologies
- Guide architectural decisions involving service boundaries, data models, APIs, and integration contracts
- Oversee modernization of existing services while maintaining platform stability and supporting product development
- Establish practices for observability, testing, deployment, performance, reliability, and incident response
- Ensure services have meaningful logs, metrics, and traces using OpenTelemetry concepts
- Guide cloud resource optimization across networking, storage, and processing while balancing performance, reliability, and cost
- Lead responses to complex production issues affecting multiple services or teams
- Partner with stakeholders to translate requirements into practical delivery plans
- Hire, coach, and develop engineers and technical leads
- Improve team tooling, documentation, runbooks, and development processes
- Support adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows
- Collaborate with Product, Architecture, and Engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable, cost-effective services supporting media ingestion, processing, storage, retrieval, and playback

Requirements

- At least three years of experience managing technical teams
- At least five years of experience working with video in large-scale production pipelines involving cloud and edge/endpoint software
- Experience with WebRTC, HLS, RTSP, FFmpeg, and gstreamer
- At least five years of software engineering experience, including backend/infrastructure and embedded/IoT roles
- Hands-on experience with tooling for AIDLC
- Experience owning production services end-to-end in high-volume, low-latency environments
- Hands-on AWS experience, including SQS, EKS, Redis, CloudFront, S3, or Lambda
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, including asynchronous processing,



eventual consistency, idempotency, and stateless scaling
- Solid knowledge of observability across logs, metrics, and traces, including OpenTelemetry concepts
- Experience with CI/CD, staging and production environments, gradual rollouts, and canary releases
- Experience diagnosing complex, intermittent, or cross-service production issues
- Candidates must undergo a criminal records check upon hire
- Candidates must be legally eligible to work in Canada and meet applicable security requirements
- Candidates must attend at least one in-person interview at the Ottawa office
- Mandatory onboarding in Ottawa during the first week of employment
- Periodic in-person visits to the Ottawa office are required, generally quarterly
- Willingness to comply with Solink's security policies and standards
- Nice-to-have: experience with audio/video codecs and audio analysis or processing
- Nice-to-have: experience with Serverless or Kubernetes
- Nice-to-have: experience with TypeScript or Rust
- Nice-to-have: experience with GCP or Azure

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in leading technical teams and managing high-volume, event-driven services using AWS technologies. Proficient in cloud resource optimization, observability practices, and modernizing existing services while ensuring platform stability.

Highest-signal resume keywords

- AWS Experience
- Video Production Pipeline Management
- Distributed Systems Understanding
- Observability Practices
- Technical Team Leadership

Hard Skills

- WebRTC
- HLS
- RTSP
- FFmpeg
- Gstreamer
- CI/CD
- Asynchronous Processing
- Idempotency
- Stateless Scaling
- AIDLC Tooling

Soft Skills

- Coaching
- Collaboration
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Problem-Solving

Industry Keywords

- Media Platform
- Production Services
- Cloud Technologies
- Event-Driven Services
- Security Compliance

Tools & Technologies

- SQS
- EKS
- Redis
- CloudFront
- S3
- Lambda
- OpenTelemetry

📌 Senior Engineering Manager, Media Platform (Ottawa)
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📍 Ottawa