# Senior Engineering Manager, EMEA

**Company:** [Panopto](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/panopto)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Cloud Architecture, DevOps, JavaScript, Python, C#, Java, Ai-Assisted Development, Claude Code, Automated Testing, Telemetry, Observability, Video Processing, High Availability, Low Latency
**Posted:** 2026-09-04

> Leads the EMEA engineering organization, setting technical strategy, scaling teams, and delivering reliable distributed video systems. The role requires 8+ years of engineering experience, 4+ years of people management, strong software architecture expertise, and applied AI-first engineering practices.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead, develop, and mentor an EMEA engineering organization of senior, staff, and principal engineers.
- Build scalable team structures, career pathways, and workforce plans.
- Establish and execute technical roadmaps for distributed, high-performance systems.
- Drive architectural decisions focused on reliability, low latency, scalability, and maintainability.
- Integrate AI tools, automation, agentic development environments, automated testing, and telemetry into engineering workflows.
- Coordinate delivery, technical trade-offs, and roadmap execution with executive stakeholders, product leadership, and cross-functional teams.
- Improve engineering velocity, pull request review speed, service resiliency, observability, and incident resolution.
- Support video creation, upload, broadcast, processing, editing, and viewing systems.

## Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.
- 8+ years of professional engineering experience with complex distributed systems.
- 4+ years of direct people-management experience leading senior, staff, or principal engineers.
- Proficiency with JavaScript, Python, C#, or Java.
- Expertise in distributed, high-availability production environments.
- Experience with AI-first engineering practices and agentic development environments such as Claude Code.
- Strong people leadership, technical strategy, organizational design, stakeholder management, and written communication skills.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with cloud architecture, media processing, video platforms, and DevOps.
- Experience standardizing system observability metrics and using AI-driven telemetry.

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