Senior Engineering Manager V&V Media

Responsibilities

We are representing a confidential communications platform organization seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead their Voice Media team. In this role, you will:

• Lead a team of senior engineers developing next-generation media processing stack
• Drive technical architecture decisions for low-latency, high-throughput media systems
• Collaborate with product, platform teams, and other engineering teams to define technical roadmaps
• Establish engineering excellence through code quality standards, testing practices, and operational reliability
• Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance on complex media processing challenges
• Balance technical debt reduction with feature development while maintaining service reliability
• Build and evolve systems handling real-time media processing at scale
• Own service performance metrics, reliability targets, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Partner with engineering leaders to align media platform capabilities with broader Voice strategy
• Make key technology stack decisions that impact media processing capabilities

What We're Looking For

Required:

• 5+ years of engineering management experience leading teams building distributed systems
• Understanding of Voice/VoIP infrastructure and media handling challenges
• Strong technical background with experience architecting and building backend services at scale, operating them with high reliability under strict SLOs
• Deep understanding of systems design, microservice architecture, and cloud infrastructure
• Experience managing complex technical tradeoffs between reliability, scalability, and feature development
• Track record of successfully delivering critical infrastructure projects with significant technical complexity
• Experience in improving developer velocity using AI tools
• Strong knowledge of performance optimization, reliability engineering, and operational excellence
• Excellent communication skills with ability to translate complex technical concepts across technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience with at least one of: real-time communications systems, media processing, streaming technologies, or related fields

Desired:

• Experience with SIP, RTP/RTCP or other communications protocols
• Familiarity with media codecs, transcoding, packet loss concealment, and audio processing
• Background in building low-latency, globally distributed systems
• Experience with Rust, Java, C/C++, or other systems programming languages and platforms like Asterisk or gStreamer
• Experience in building Voice AI products
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure on AWS or similar platforms
• Prior experience in telecommunications or communications platforms

Location: Remote (Ireland or UK)

Occasional travel may be required for team meetings and collaboration.

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will carefully review your profile and conduct an initial screening to ensure strong alignment with this senior leadership role. If there's a match, we'll submit your candidacy to our client for consideration. Please note that you should not contact the client directly—our recruiting team will manage all communication and coordination throughout the interview process.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on experience and qualifications.

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