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

Solid understanding of distributed systems, including asynchronous processing, eventual consistency,



idempotency, and stateless scaling

Strong 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

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