Director, Living Room Apps Engineering
On-siteBengaluru, Karnataka, India
Job Summary
Lead and grow multiple engineering teams responsible for building high-quality, scalable Connected TV applications across Apple tvOS, Android TV, Fire TV, and Roku. Define the multi-year technology roadmap, drive architectural decisions for platform scalability and reliability, and establish engineering best practices for code quality, CI/CD, and observability. Partner with Product, Design, Backend, and DevOps teams to deliver strategic initiatives while managing organizational planning, hiring, and talent development. Mentor Engineering Managers and Senior Technical Leaders to build future leadership within the organization. Balance feature delivery with long-term platform investments and technical debt reduction to support FOX's digital entertainment strategy.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- 12+ years of software engineering experience
- 5+ years leading multiple engineering teams or organizations
- Extensive experience building and delivering Connected TV (CTV), OTT, or consumer streaming applications at scale
- Strong understanding of one or more Living Room platforms including Apple tvOS, Android TV, Fire TV, Roku
- Experience designing scalable, highly available, cloud-native distributed systems supporting millions of users
- Proven experience leading Engineering Managers, Staff Engineers, and Senior Technical Leaders
- Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, CI/CD, observability, application security, and performance optimization
- Demonstrated success leading organizational growth, hiring, coaching, performance management, and succession planning
- Experience managing complex engineering programs involving multiple cross-functional teams and stakeholders
- Strong business acumen with the ability to align engineering strategy with organizational priorities
- Excellent communication, leadership, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills
Desired Qualifications
- Experience delivering applications across multiple Connected TV platforms within a single engineering organization
- Experience with video streaming technologies including HLS, MPEG-DASH, DRM (Widevine, FairPlay, PlayReady), and adaptive bitrate streaming
- Knowledge of CDN technologies, media delivery architectures, and video playback optimization
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and modern DevOps practices
- Familiarity with analytics, monitoring, and observability platforms such as Conviva, Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, or Splunk
- Experience leading globally distributed engineering organizations
- Passion for media, entertainment, sports, and consumer digital products
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