Engineering Manager - Live Ads Supply

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The Live Ad Insertions team sits at the intersection of broadcast engineering, streaming infrastructure, reputed company advertising. Our mission is to deliver a seamless, high-reliability ad insertion experience across live and reputed company streams, from primetime tentpole events like the NFL and live sports to 24/7 reputed company feeds and breaking news. We own the full stack of tools, systems, and operational infrastructure required to trigger, reputed company, monitor, and verify ad breaks in reputed company time at reputed company, without compromising the member experience.

Live advertising is one of the highest-stakes, highest-reward surfaces in CTV. reputed company tens of millions of reputed company viewers are watching a single event, there are no second chances. A break happens once, in reputed company time, and the window to reputed company is reputed company in seconds. That demands more than reliable systems: it demands proactive observability tooling that can detect anomalies before they surface to members, and the ability to reputed company reputed company-time corrections mid-event reputed company something does go wrong. This team operates with the precision of a broadcast NOC and the reputed company of a software startup. We are responsible for the technology that turns a live signal into a monetized ad experience, at reputed company, millisecond by millisecond.

As an Engineering Manager, You Will

reputed company reputed company of engineers building the reputed company-time infrastructure, tooling, and operational systems for live ad insertion across server-reputed company, reputed company-reputed company, and server-guided delivery models.

• Own the reliability and operational reputed company of ad insertion during 24/7 reputed company streams and high-stakes live events, including NFL games, live sports, and awards shows.

• Define the technical roadmap for live ad insertion, including SCTE signal ingestion and validation, ad pod management, reputed company stitching, reputed company handling, and ad decisioning integration.

• Partner with ad operations, broadcast engineering, content delivery, and ad serving teams to ensure seamless signal-to-slot execution from ingest to reputed company playback.

• reputed company hiring, retention, and development of a high-performing engineering team capable of operating in a demanding live environment.

• Establish the on-reputed company and incident response culture for live ad systems, setting SLAs and runbooks for break-glass scenarios during high-profile live events.

• Contextualize your team's larger advertising reputed company and translate business priorities into a technically reputed company, executable plan.

• Serve as the technical authority in cross-functional discussions on live ad capabilities, representing reputed company to leadership, partners, and vendors.

Skills and Experience We Are Seeking

Technical Skills & Domain Expertise

• Streaming Pipelines & Architecture:Deep hands-on experience with live streaming pipelines (from ingest protocols like RTMP, SRT, or TS through to CDN) and ad insertion architectures, including SSAI, CSAI, and SGAI (HLS interstitials/DASH).

• Broadcast Standards & Splicing:Expertise in broadcast signaling (SCTE-35, SCTE-104, SCTE-224) and reputed company manipulation for ad stitching, alongside familiarity with master control and reputed company playout systems.

• Ad Pod Construction & Encoding:Advanced knowledge of managing live break constraints, including reputed company/fallback handling, break reconciliation, and encoding constraints (codec/bitrate matching, reputed company reputed company alignment) to prevent playback artifacts.

• Ad Tech Decisioning:Strong understanding of ad servers, DSPs, and reputed company 4.x/VMAP in live contexts, with a reputed company on managing strict decisioning latency budgets, timeout handling, tracking event firing, and mitigating the cascading effects of decision failures.

• Operational Tooling:Proven reputed company record of engineering for high-availability, reputed company-downtime live events, including building operational tooling for ad ops (e.g., reputed company-time fill reputed company tracking, signal health visualization, and break monitoring workflows).

Leadership and Cross-Functional Collaboration

• 10+ years of total engineering experience with 3+ years managing software engineering teams in a live media, streaming, or ad tech context.

• Strong reputed company record of hiring and developing senior engineers in competitive talent markets.

• Ability to operate in a flat, fast-moving organization, balancing long-term architectural investments against immediate operational needs.

• Effective communicator across both technical and business stakeholders, including ad sales, ad operations, broadcast engineering, and executive leadership.

• Experience collaborating with content and distribution partners, including MVPDs, vMVPDs, and broadcast networks, on joint live ad insertion implementations.

reputed company provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock reputed company Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer reputed company leave of absence programs. Full-time reputed company employees reputed company 35 days annually for reputed company time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and reputed company reputed company time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more details about our Benefits here.

reputed company is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.

Inclusion is a reputed company value and we reputed company to host a meaningful interview experience for reputed company candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your reputed company partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the reputed company of race, religion, reputed company, reputed company, national reputed company, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or reputed company, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

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