Job Title: Engineering Manager, JioHotStar

Location:
Onsite, Bangalore Work Type: Full time Job Summary As an Engineering Manager
- Data Platform at JioHotstar, you will lead and scale a high-caliber team responsible for building the next-generation data platforms and pipelines powering content delivery, product innovation, and business operations. In this role, you will balance people leadership, architectural oversight, and execution rigor to deliver resilient, real-time, petabyte-scale data infrastructure. You will partner closely with leaders across Product, Analytics, Data Science, and Core Engineering to democratize data and drive high-impact outcomes across India's premier entertainment streaming platform. About the Team The Data Platform Team is JioHotstar’s engine for business intelligence, experimentation, and personalization. We empower teams across Content, Growth, Monetization, and Ads by delivering fast, reliable, and secure access to high-quality data. Operating at massive scale, handling hundreds of millions of concurrent users and tens of billions of daily events, our systems span distributed stream processing, modern lakehouses, feature stores, and automated governance frameworks.

Key Responsibilities
• People Leadership & Talent Development: Recruit, manage, and mentor a high-performing team of data engineers. Foster an engineering culture centered on high ownership, technical excellence, and continuous growth through regular 1:1s, performance management, and career coaching.
• Platform Architecture & Delivery: Own the end-to-end technical roadmap and execution for batch, near-real-time, and streaming data pipelines. Ensure systems are highly available, cost-effective, secure, and fault-tolerant.
• Technical Governance & Best Practices: Lead system design reviews,



drive build-versus-buy decisions, and enforce coding standards, CI/CD, IaC, and data observability across pipelines.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Business Analysts, and Backend Engineering Leaders to translate platform requirements and business KPIs into clear engineering deliverables.
• Data Quality & Governance: Champion initiatives in data modeling, lineage tracking, metadata cataloging, SLA management, and compliance across all data assets.
• Self-Serve & Democratization: Build discoverable, self-service tools and frameworks that minimize friction for downstream data consumers and analysts. Required Skills & Qualifications
• Technical Leadership: Proven track record of guiding architectural decisions and delivering distributed, multi-terabyte/petabyte data systems (Data Lakes, Lakehouses, and Real-time Stream architectures).
• Distributed Technologies: Deep hands-on expertise with frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and Apache Airflow.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with cloud ecosystems (preferably AWS) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation).
• Programming Languages: Proficiency in at least one modern language: Python, Java, Scala, or Go.
• Data Warehousing & Modeling: Strong command of data modeling concepts (dimensional modeling, Data Vault)



and query optimization on distributed stores (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, or ClickHouse).
• Observability & Reliability: Experience establishing robust alerting, monitoring, and tracing using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
• Execution & Delivery: Robust agile project management capability, with demonstrated success in managing dependencies, roadmaps, and stakeholder alignment. Preferred Education & Experience
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Education:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related quantitative field.
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Experience:
• 8–11 years of core software and data engineering experience.
• 2+ years of direct people management experience (hiring, performance management, and leading teams of 6+ engineers).
• Domain Advantage: Prior experience in large-scale Consumer Internet, OTT, Media Streaming, AdTech, or high-throughput e-commerce ecosystems.

About Us
Perched firmly at the nucleus of spellbinding content and innovative technology, JioStar is a leading global media & entertainment company that is reimagining the way audiences consume entertainment and sports. Its television network and streaming service together reach more than 750 million viewers every week, igniting the dreams and aspirations of hundreds of million people across geographies. JioStar is an equal opportunity employer. The company values diversity and its mission is to create a workplace where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. The company ensures that the work workplace is free from any discrimination against persons with disabilities, gender, gender identity and any other characteristics or status that is legally protected.

📌 Engineering Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 JioHotstar
📍 Bengaluru