Senior Engineering Manager, Central Europe

Company Overview:At Panopto, we are the most customer-centric learning technology company in the world. As the leader in visual and audio-based learning, we empower organizations to share knowledge effortlessly in a capture and post-capture world. We don’t just build software; we obsess over our users’ goals to deliver solutions that truly matter. Our mission is simple: to attract the brightest talent, people like you, to Elevate the Craft and do the most impactful work of your career. 

To enhance our team, we are seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Manager who brings strong people leadership, technical vision, and an AI-first operational strategy to our EMEA engineering organization. 

Position Summary:

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. You will lead senior, staff, and principal engineers, aligning technical roadmaps with executive business objectives to build and scale distributed, high-performance systems supporting high reliability, system performance, and low latency. You will bridge high-velocity product delivery with robust engineering standards, ensuring our platforms are reliable, maintainable, and built on clarity over complexity. 

Driving an AI-first operational strategy, you will embed modern automation alongside agentic development environments (such as Claude Code) into engineering workflows, automated testing, and telemetry to eliminate repetitive tasks, accelerate delivery speed, increase pull request review speed without lowering code quality, and optimize engineering efficiency across complex software architectures. 

You'll also have opportunities to contribute to other initiatives that directly advance our core values and support you in elevating your craft.

How You’ll Contribute: 

In this role, you will have the opportunity to…

• People Leadership & Organizational Design: Lead, develop, and mentor an engineering organization composed of senior, staff, and principal individual contributors. Build scalable team structures, establish clear career pathways, and drive workforce planning to increase engineering capacity.

• Technical Strategy & Roadmap Execution: Establish and execute technical roadmaps for distributed, high-performance systems. Drive architectural decisions that guarantee reliability, low latency, and system scalability.

• AI-First Operational Integration: Embed modern AI tools and automation into the engineering lifecycle. Use an AI-first approach to software development (e.g., AI-DLC) to accelerate team velocity and improve service resiliency.

• Cross-Functional Alignment & Stakeholder Management: Coordinate delivery and technical trade-offs with executive stakeholders, product leadership, and cross-functional teams. Translate complex technical concepts into clear business risks and opportunities.

What Success Looks Like 

• Within 3 Months: Complete onboarding across our codebases, build direct relationships with your team, evaluate current engineering workflows, and establish baseline AI-assisted tooling adoption. 

• Within 6 Months: Optimize pipeline delivery velocity, standardize system observability metrics, and drive quarterly roadmap execution for key features. 

• Within 1 Year: Establish a high-performing EMEA engineering unit, reduce platform incident resolution times through AI-driven telemetry, and deliver scalable infrastructure supporting core user growth targets. 

• Your Legacy: Build a resilient, modern engineering organization and platform architecture that powers global video learning seamlessly for millions of daily users. 

Values in Action

• Customer First, Always: You proactively surface friction points in the customer experience before they are escalated — and propose solutions, not just reports.

• Thrive Together: You share work-in-progress for early feedback, knowing that challenge improves the outcome. You separate critiques of ideas from critiques of people.

• Elevate the Craft: You hold the bar high on your own work and invest in developing those around you. You treat every project as an opportunity to learn something new.

• Act with Ownership: You define success by outcomes, not activity. You flag problems early and bring a proposed path forward, not just the problem.

• Clarity Over Complexity: You default to the simpler solution. Your written communication — internal or external — is direct, specific, and free of filler.

How We Thrive

You’ll work alongside a high-caliber group of engineers with deep domain expertise across cloud architecture, distributed systems, media processing, and DevOps. Your direct team is composed of seasoned senior, staff, and principal engineers who drive critical platform architecture, while you collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Infrastructure leaders to scale our global video platform. 

The Foundation for Success

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience combined with 8+ years of professional engineering experience on complex distributed systems, including 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, alongside architecture expertise in distributed, high-availability production environments.

• Applied experience leveraging modern AI-first engineering practices and agentic development environments (e.g., Claude Code) to increase team velocity.

Join Us

Join Panopto and play a key role in shaping the future of video creation and streaming for millions of users worldwide. If you love coaching engineering teams, leveraging AI-assisted workflows, and building high-performance, scalable video architectures, you’ll feel right at home here.

Beyond the RequirementsAt this point, we hope you're feeling excited about the job description you’re reading. Even if you don't feel that you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply.We're eager to meet people that believe in our mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways - not just candidates who check all the boxes.We want people to feel comfortable expressing their true selves and to come, stay, and do their best work here.
Recruiting Tips:From crafting an impressive resume to presenting your best self during our interviews, we're dedicated to ensuring you feel well-prepared and self-assured as you embark on opportunities at Panopto. Discover some valuable recruiting tips from our team.The standard interview process at Panopto involves several steps, outlined below, to ensure we approach the process thoughtfully and consistently: Application Review -> Recruiter Call -> Video Interview & Assessment -> Hiring Manager Call -> Interview Loop -> Debrief -> Offer

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If your application is unsuccessful, Panopto may keep your personal data on file in case there are future employment opportunities for which you may be suited. We will ask for your consent before it keeps your data for this purpose and you are free to withdraw your consent at any time.Who has access to data?Your information may be shared internally for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes members of the HR and recruitment team, interviewers involved in the recruitment process, managers in the business area with a vacancy and IT staff if access to the data is necessary for the performance of their roles.We will not share your data with third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you, employment background check providers to obtain necessary background checks.
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If your application for employment is successful, personal data gathered during the recruitment process will be transferred to your Human Resources file (electronic and paper based) and retained during your employment. The periods for which your data will be held will be provided to you in a new privacy notice.
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If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact hr@panopto.com. If you believe that the organization has not complied with your data protection rights, you can complain to the Information Commissioner.
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Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI):Panopto may utilize artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in our recruitment and evaluation process. This may include analyzing resumes, assessing skills, and generating insights to help identify qualified candidates.
Please be assured that AI tools are used to support our team, and all final hiring decisions are made by human reviewers. Panopto hiring teams will thoroughly review your application and assessment results. AI is not used to make final decisions regarding your candidacy.
By submitting your application and participating in the recruitment process, you acknowledge and consent to Panopto's use of AI tools as described above.
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To ensure fairness and transparency:_ We have human oversight in all hiring decisions._ If you have concerns regarding the use of AI in your assessment, please contact Panopto Talent Attraction to request a manual review of your application. Please be aware that while we offer this option, the manual review process may take longer than the standard AI-assisted process._ Any data collected during this process, including video recordings if applicable, will be retained only for the duration necessary to fulfill the hiring purpose and will be deleted shortly thereafter once the role is filled._ We may utilize vendor tools to assist with the AI process. Vendor functions are ‘skill assessments' or 'resume analysis'.
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