Engineering Manager, VOD Media

The Media Group at NBCU supports a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands including Peacock, NBC, Bravo, NBC Sports, and NBCU International. With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We’re always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth and consistently offer the very best in consumer experience. But most of all, we’re backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive. We are seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead the multidisciplinary team responsible for NBCUniversal’s cloud-native VOD encoding platform and associated media engineering capabilities. This leader will own engineering execution, technical direction, production reliability, and team development across software and media engineering. The role will bring together platform development, codec and quality innovation, and operational excellence to deliver secure, scalable, cost-efficient media-processing capabilities for Peacock and other NBCUniversal streaming services. What the VOD team does Builds and operates the end-to-end media processing platform powering Peacock and other NBCUniversal streaming services. Develops cloud-native systems for ingest, encoding, packaging, quality validation, and delivery. Advances video, audio, subtitle, caption, and packaging technologies. Researches emerging codecs, HDR formats, AI-assisted workflows, and media innovations. Partners with Product, Operations, Playback, and Media Supply Chain teams. Key Responsibilities Lead and grow a multidisciplinary team of software and media engineers. Own execution of the media processing platform roadmap, translating strategic priorities into clearly scoped initiatives, measurable outcomes, and predictable delivery across software and media engineering workstreams. Provide technical direction and architecture oversight for scalable, resilient, cloud-native media-processing services, while empowering senior engineers to lead design and implementation. Define and evolve engineering standards for architecture, API design, code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, release management, observability, documentation, and production readiness. Establish and maintain service-level objectives, operational metrics, alerting, incident-response practices, capacity planning, and continuous-improvement mechanisms for production media services. Drive adoption of new codecs, HDR formats, packaging standards, and AI-assisted media processing. Mentor engineers through coaching, career development, hiring, and performance management. Foster experimentation through proof-of-concepts, benchmarking, and data-driven engineering decisions.