[Hiring] Senior Engineering Manager @Panopto

Role Description

In this role, you will lead the technical strategy, organizational growth, and delivery execution for our engineering domain. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you drive technical strategy, organizational capability, and operational execution for video creation, upload, broadcast, processing, editing, and viewing systems that power video knowledge management for global universities and businesses.

• Lead senior, staff, and principal engineers, aligning technical roadmaps with executive business objectives.
• Build and scale distributed, high-performance systems supporting high reliability, system performance, and low latency.
• Bridge high-velocity product delivery with robust engineering standards, ensuring platforms are reliable and maintainable.
• Embed modern automation alongside agentic development environments into engineering workflows.
• Eliminate repetitive tasks, accelerate delivery speed, and optimize engineering efficiency across complex software architectures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.
• 8+ years of professional engineering experience on complex distributed systems.
• 4+ years of direct people management experience leading senior, staff, or principal engineers.
• Proficiency with software development in languages such as Javascript, Python, C#, or Java.
• Architecture expertise in distributed, high-availability production environments.
• Applied experience leveraging modern AI-first engineering practices.

Requirements

• Lead, develop, and mentor an engineering organization.
• Establish and execute technical roadmaps for distributed, high-performance systems.
• Embed modern AI tools and automation into the engineering lifecycle.
• Coordinate delivery and technical trade-offs with executive stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

Benefits

• Competitive base pay.
• Opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs such as health insurance, flexible spending accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs.
• Programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.
• Bonus eligibility as part of the compensation package.

Company Description

At Panopto, we are the most customer-centric learning technology company in the world. Our mission is to attract the brightest talent to elevate the craft and do impactful work.