Senior Engineering Manager V&V Media

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead a team responsible for developing and scaling advanced media infrastructure while ensuring reliability, performance, and technical excellence. You will combine strategic vision with hands-on technical leadership to deliver critical systems and guide engineering practices.

• Lead and mentor a team of senior engineers building next-generation media processing systems.


• Define and execute technical strategies for low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems.


• Drive architecture decisions impacting large-scale real-time communication platforms.


• Collaborate with product, platform, and engineering teams to establish technical roadmaps and priorities.


• Promote engineering excellence through strong coding standards, testing practices, and operational reliability.


• Provide technical guidance on complex media processing and infrastructure challenges.


• Balance feature delivery, technical debt reduction, scalability, and long-term system maintainability.


• Own service performance metrics, reliability goals, and continuous improvement initiatives.


• Make key technology decisions that shape future platform capabilities.


• Support team growth through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and career development.


• Partner with engineering leadership to align infrastructure capabilities with broader business objectives.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate is an experienced engineering leader with a strong background in distributed systems, backend architecture, and real-time communication technologies. You should have proven experience managing technical teams while delivering reliable, scalable infrastructure in complex environments.

• 5+ years of engineering management experience leading teams responsible for distributed systems or large-scale backend services.


• Strong understanding of Voice/VoIP infrastructure and media processing challenges.


• Proven experience architecting and operating highly reliable backend systems under strict service-level objectives.


• Deep knowledge of systems design, microservice architectures, and cloud infrastructure.


• Experience managing technical trade-offs involving reliability, scalability, performance, and product delivery.


• Track record of successfully delivering complex infrastructure projects.


• Experience improving developer productivity and workflows through AI-powered engineering tools.


• Strong knowledge of performance optimization, reliability engineering, and operational excellence practices.


• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.


• Experience with real-time communication systems, media processing, streaming technologies, or related domains.


• Familiarity with SIP, RTP/RTCP, communication protocols, media codecs, transcoding, packet loss handling, or audio processing is a plus.


• Experience with systems programming languages such as Rust, Java, C, or C++ is beneficial.


• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS or similar environments is preferred.


• Experience building Voice AI products or telecommunications platforms is an advantage.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation package with a target salary range of approximately CAD 194,000 to CAD 242,500, depending on skills, experience, and location.


• Performance-based bonus opportunities.


• Remote work flexibility within eligible Canadian locations.


• Comprehensive healthcare and wellness benefits.


• Generous paid time off and parental leave programs.


• Retirement savings support.


• Potential eligibility for additional compensation programs and equity opportunities.


• Opportunities for professional growth, learning, and career development.


• A collaborative global environment focused on innovation and technical excellence.


• Occasional travel opportunities for team and project collaboration.