Director Of Engineering, Internal Platform and Services
Pluto TV
Los Angeles, CAThis was removed by the employer on 6/10/2022 10:08:00 AM PST
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Pluto TV, a Paramount company, is the leading free streaming television service in America, delivering 250 live and original channels and thousands of on-demand movies in partnership with major TV networks, movie studios, publishers, and digital media companies. Pluto TV is available on all mobile, web and connected TV streaming devices and millions of viewers tune in each month to watch premium news, TV shows, movies, sports, lifestyle, and trending digital series. Headquartered in West Hollywood, Pluto TV has offices in New York, Silicon Valley, Chicago and Berlin.
Summary
We are currently looking for a Director of Engineering to oversee Pluto TV’s internal platform and services. The best possible person for this role has extensive experience in building APIs, platforms, and architecting solutions at scale. We are looking for someone who can grow and lead a multi-faceted distributed team.
The right person will have experience designing and implementing services with robust performance and availability using cloud native patterns. They should constantly be seeking to improve and innovate on systems. Additionally, they will require the ability to communicate effectively with multiple stakeholders across the organization.
Our preference is for candidates who are coming from entertainment companies like studios, post-production or visual effects. If you are willing to learn the industry domain and come from a similar field, we'd be happy to speak with you! This role reports to the VP of Engineering, Backend Services.
Responsibilities
This is a meaningful role with a wide range of responsibilities, including:
• Supervising the internal platform team: hiring, training, mentorship and development of a globally distributed team of software engineers building Pluto’s next generation platform and maintaining internal components supporting services across the org.
• Supervising the devops team: manage a team of globally distributed devops engineers
• Executing complex projects and workloads, managing priorities, and maintaining high productivity across the department.
• Cross-functional communication and collaboration with many internal teams including key business partners.
• Develop and implement innovative processes, strategies and best practices to maximize team morale and productivity
• Employ a data driven approach to managing the team by determining key engineering metrics, and monitoring and improving team engineering metrics
• Host weekly 1:1’s with team members for coaching and mentoring
Qualities / Experience We’re Seeking
• 8 years of managerial / directorial expeirence.
• 10 years of programming experience, including such areas as application development, API development, infrastructure, database administration, and system architecture
• 5 years deloping and growing a dynamic distributed team with a proven track record of forging strong relationships, collaborating across teams, developing their staff, coordinating multiple timelines, and managing complex, cross-discipline projects to the benefit of the organization.
• 8 years implementing highly performant, scalable, and available API services / microservices
Additionally, the best candidates will have:
• Be an experienced and empathetic Engineering leader, excellent communicator, presenter, and motivator
• Proven ability to work effectively in a remote, collaborative, and distributed team environment
• Demonstrated analytical ability and a strong problem solver
• Experience designing, developing, and deploying one or more services that have high-volume (RPS) and/or broad usage (MAUs)
• Working knowledge of EKS, GKE, AKS, or vanilla Kubernetes
• Previous experience with video streaming platform
• Experience and understanding of SAFe product development methodology