Senior Engineering Manager - Compute

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with 283 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

About the Team

Compute is critical to Netflix. From delivering the largest streaming service on the planet to encoding vast amounts of video content, flexible scalable compute capacity is at the core of Netflix’s success. The Compute team concentrates on building infrastructure abstractions to increase the scale, efficiency, and reliability across our compute, offerings from traditional VM based offerings, to containers via Netflix’s platform to serverless functions. Every engineer at Netflix relies on the products and expertise of the compute team to meet the demands of the largest streaming service in the world. 

About the Role
We are looking for an experienced senior leader with a passion for building large scale distributed systems to join us in leading and growing our Compute Platform. You would lead and grow a team of engineering managers and engineers to evolve and implement a cohesive Compute strategy that underpins all Cloud usage at Netflix. 
 

What You Will Do

• Drive the vision and strategy on how to evolve our Compute platform.

• Build, scale, and mentor a cohesive team of amazing engineers and leaders.

• Form strong cross-functional partnerships to achieve alignment with many engineering teams, ensuring our solutions meet their needs, while maintaining our focus on scalability, reliability, and efficiency.

• Balance competing priorities across multiple cross-functional stakeholders and programs.

• Drive large initiatives to completion in tandem with partner and peer organizations.

What Sets You Apart

• A self-motivated exceptional people leader with experience building and leading high-performing teams, ideally with remote or hybrid teams.

• Strong understanding of cloud architectures and distributed systems at scale.

• Focus on delighting customers with amazing user experiences and customer service.

• Proactively give and receive feedback with a growth mindset; adept at active listening.

• Experience working with and operating production compute infrastructure systems at large scale.

• Perseverance and the ability to balance competing priorities across multiple cross-functional stakeholders and programs.

• Strong experience with strategic prioritization but able to strike the right balance between short term goals and longer-term vision.

• Product driven mindset and previous experience of working hand in hand with Product and Program Management.

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Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $480,000 - $1,200,000
 

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more detail about our Benefits.

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We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.