Conviva

If you've used Disney+, Peacock, or other top streaming platforms, you've already benefited from Conviva's technology. We empower the world’s leading B2C companies, including the biggest names in streaming media, to deliver exceptional digital experiences and optimize the “moments that matter” to their customers and their business. As the global leader in experience-centric operational analytics, Conviva has redefined big data analytics with our paradigm-shifting Time-State Analytics model. Our platform does what legacy observability and monitoring tools can’t: we eliminate the gaps between system performance, user experience, and engagement, enabling issue identification, impact assessment, and root cause resolution in seconds. This isn’t just important, it's game-changing! Our platform processes over 5 trillion daily events, providing real-time, cost-effective, stateful computation across diverse data sets. This empowers operations teams for the first time to precisely and directly impact real-world business outcomes, including customer satisfaction and revenue.

We are looking for a Director of Engineering to own one or more flagship products. This person must have a proven track record of technical leadership, owning and delivering high-quality outcomes, mentoring teams, and championing process transformation in a massive growth yet start-up environment.

What Success Will Look Like:

• Provide expert technical guidance: Act as a technical leader, offering insightful feedback on architecture, design decisions, and technology choices. Stay ahead of industry trends and ensure the team adopts best practices.
• Bridge the gap between product and engineering: Collaborate closely with product managers to understand the bigger picture, including product strategy, customer feedback, and market demands. Translate these insights into actionable engineering stories, resolving ambiguity and ensuring efficient execution.
• Empower and mentor: Foster a culture of growth and development within the engineering team. Provide individual mentorship, career guidance, and support to help team members achieve their full potential.
• Collaborate and drive accountability: Partner with engineering leaders across other teams to plan, execute, and ensure accountability for cross-functional initiatives. Foster a collaborative environment and hold teams accountable for delivering on commitments.
• Cultivate a positive team culture: Ensure the engineering team culture aligns with the company's core values. Promote teamwork, communication, and a sense of purpose, fostering a supportive and engaging work environment.

Who You Are & What You've Done:

• BS in CS or equivalent.
• 15+ years of software engineering including 5+ years in software management or architecture
• Should have a proven track record of successful project delivery and exceeding technical objectives.
• Deep understanding of software development methodologies, best practices, and architecture principles.
• Experience working on real-time data processing and building large-scale query-serving applications
• Expert at React, JavaScript, Node, and JVM stack-based technologies.
• Hands-on expertise in big data technologies. At least two and preferably several from Spark, Flink, Druid, Hadoop, Kafka & big query.
• Working experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across various teams and stakeholders.
• Strong leadership qualities, including the ability to mentor, motivate, and inspire others.
• Passion for continuous learning and adapting to emerging technologies.

Underpinning the Conviva platform is a rich history of innovation. More than 60 patents represent award-winning technologies and standards, including first-of-its kind-innovations like time-state analytics and AI-automated data modeling, that surfaces actionable insights. By understanding real-world human experiences and having the ability to act within seconds of observation, our customers can solve business-critical issues and focus on growing their business ahead of the competition. Examples of the brands Conviva has helped fuel streaming growth for include: DAZN, Disney+, HBO, Hulu, NBCUniversal, Paramount+, Peacock, Sky, Sling TV, Univision and Warner Bros Discovery. 

Privately held, Conviva is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California with offices and people around the globe. For more information, visit us at www.conviva.com. Join us to help extend our leadership position in big data streaming analytics to new audiences and markets!