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.

Total Rewards

The salary range for this position is £126,000 - £136,000 GBP per year. This position is also eligible for a bonus as part of the compensation package. Base pay offered may vary depending on various factors, including, but not limited to: job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other eligibility factors such as geographic location. The Total Rewards package includes competitive base pay and an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs such as health insurance, flexible spending accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work. At Panopto, we know that great people make an organization great. We value our people and offer employees benefits that are market competitive for our industry. Learn more about what working at Panopto can mean for you.

At Panopto, our commitment to pay equity and transparency is unwavering. We do not engage in salary negotiations beyond the established range to maintain fairness and prevent potential pay disparities among team members based on negotiation strategies.

Beyond the Requirements

At 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

Job Applicant Privacy Notice (compliant with GDPR)

As part of any recruitment process, Panopto collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The organization is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.

What information do we collect?

Panopto collects a range of information about you. This includes:

• your name, address and contact details, including email address and telephone number;
• details of your qualifications, skills, experience and employment history;
• information about your current level of remuneration, including benefit entitlements;
• whether or not you have a disability for which the organization needs to make reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process; and
• information about your entitlement to work in the UK.

Panopto may collect this information in a variety of ways. For example, data might be contained in application forms, CVs or resumes, obtained from your passport or other identity documents, or collected through interviews or other forms of assessment. We may also collect personal data about you from third parties, such as references supplied by former employers. We will seek information from third parties only once a job offer to you has been made and will inform you that we are doing so. Data will be stored in a range of different places, including on your application record, in HR management systems and on other IT systems (including email).

Why does Panopto process personal data?

We need to process data to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract with you. We may also need to process your data to enter into a contract with you. In some cases, we need to process data to ensure that we are complying with its legal obligations. For example, it is mandatory to check a successful applicant's eligibility to work in the UK before employment starts.

Panopto has a legitimate interest in processing personal data during the recruitment process and for keeping records of the process. Processing data from job applicants allows us to manage the recruitment process, assess and confirm a candidate's suitability for employment and decide to whom to offer a job. We may also need to process data from job applicants to respond to and defend against legal claims. Panopto may process special categories of data, such as information about ethnic origin, sexual orientation or religion or belief, to monitor recruitment statistics. We may also collect information about whether or not