Engineering Manager, Content Data Foundations

You will lead a team of software engineers to deliver high-impact results.

Your responsibilities in this role:

• Partner with Product and cross-functional stakeholders to define and execute the vision and strategy, while driving adoption of the platforms built across Content and Studio Engineering.
• Foster a strong accountability culture in the team and help the team deliver the results reliably and in a timely manner to support the needs of critical business stakeholders.
• Act as a credible technical advisor to the team on data modeling, graph technologies, and distributed data architecture problems; help the team make thoughtful, informed decisions in ambiguous situations
• Form trust cross-functional relationships with partners and stakeholders within Netflix, connect the dots and drive adoption to maximize the business impact, ensure our solutions meet their needs, and selflessly prioritize work beyond the scope of your own domain.
• Effectively communicate complex ideas and influence decisions across a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Balance business needs with strong engineering principles, ensure investment in foundational technical work, pay off tech debts, and make incremental improvements to deliver timely results.
• Lead, coach, hire, and develop a team of outstanding engineers, challenge them to bring their best selves to their daily work, and deliver exceptional results in stability, performance, efficiency as well as developer experience.
• Build and nurture an inclusive team culture where every member feels empowered, accepted, and respected.

What we are looking for:

• At least 3 years of experience in building and managing distributed, high-performing teams with a focus on inclusion and diversity. Ability to attract and retain the best talent, and ensure that all voices are heard to inform our decisions while fostering a strong culture of accountability, where individuals take ownership of their responsibilities and contribute to the team’s collective success.
• Ability to foster a team culture of open and direct communications, where team members feel empowered to offer constructive and positive feedback and acknowledge achievements and areas for improvement.
• Experience building and operating extremely reliable products and services used in enterprise settings supporting critical use cases, including running 24x7 on-call.
• Long-term strategic thinker with a strong platform mindset. Ability to define and articulate product vision and strategy and how they fit into the broader objectives of the organization.
• Ability to prioritize strategically and align the team’s work with larger business goals. Have the courage to pivot based on broader impacts.
• Ability to build and maintain strong partnerships with cross-functional partners and stakeholders with excellent communication and collaboration skills. Capable of influencing the strategic direction of partners and stakeholders.
• Proven track record helping a team deliver timely results on critical priorities against many demands for their time, and partnering with product and engineering management to influence the right areas for investment
• Bring rigor to decision-making and drive down ambiguity with the right mix of collecting data, seeking input, farming for dissent, and making pilot investments to build understanding or confirm direction.
• Experience driving teams to adopt specific KPIs/leading indicators of system health, observing and tuning the systems to prevent predictable outages.
• Strong communication skills - with the team, stakeholders, partners, and leadership, particularly across global borders

Nice to have:

• Experience building enterprise software and distributed systems
• Experience leading engineering teams with both UI/UX and Backend engineers
• Experience working with graph-based data modeling, knowledge graphs, RDF, ontologies, or related semantic technologies

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 details about our Benefits here .

Netflix is a unique culture and environment.

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Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates.

If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

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.