Senior Engineering Manager, Media Platform

Must-Have

• At least three years of experience managing technical teams, with a strong interest in coaching and developing engineers.
• At least five years of experience working with video in large scale production pipelines with both cloud and edge/endpoint software including WebRTC, HLS, RTSP, FFmpeg, and gstreamer.
• At least five years of software engineering experience, including backend/infrastructure and embedded/IoT roles.
• Hands-on experience navigating the ever-changing landscape of tooling for AIDLC and how best to enable incredible people with these tools.
• Experience owning production services end-to-end in high-volume, low-latency environments.
• Hands-on AWS experience, including services such as SQS, EKS, Redis, CloudFront, S3, or Lambda.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, including asynchronous processing, eventual consistency, idempotency, and stateless scaling.
• Strong knowledge of observability practices 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.

Nice-to-Have

Security Requirements

• Candidates must undergo a criminal records check upon hire;
• Candidates must be legally eligible to work in Canada and meet any applicable security requirements.
• Candidates must attend at least one in-person interview at our Ottawa office.
• Mandatory onboarding takes place in Ottawa during the first week of employment.
• Periodic in-person visits to the Ottawa office are required, generally on a quarterly basis.
• Be willing to comply with Solink’s own security policies and standards.

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How to Apply

• Submit your resume and a short cover letter via our [ Careers Page ]. Let us know what excites you about this role, and how you’d help move Solink forward.