Senior Engineering Manager leading OLO’s guest ordering, experimentation, and menu - quality systems. Owner’s AI platform helps local restaurants grow revenue and operate digitally.
About the role
- Senior Engineering Manager leading Solink’s media platform for cloud-based video security and operational insights. Directing distributed systems, AWS services, reliability, and engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Strong 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
Benefits
- Meaningful equity; every full-time, permanent employee has a stake in Solink’s growth
- Fully paid health & dental with no waiting period
- $500 health spending account
- Monthly reimbursement for fitness, wellness, or mental health programs
- Flexible working arrangements where the role allows
- Advancement based on contribution, initiative, and ability to raise the bar
- Social connection through So-learns, Solink-o, and So-lunches
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