Netflix

Manager, Engineering - Page Systems

Netflix$436K — $500K+*
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3 - 5 years of experience leading backend distributed systems teams
  • Strong technical acumen with advisory capabilities
  • Experience with high-traffic distributed systems
  • Proven record of improving customer experience through product platforms
  • Experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a plus
  • Track record of hiring and mentoring diverse engineering teams
  • Excellent communication skills to connect team efforts with business needs

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team focused on optimizing system performance and scaling operations
  • Drive architecture and execution of high-performance product infrastructure
  • Develop a strategic roadmap balancing incremental delivery and business impact
  • Define success metrics and drive platform adoption
  • Communicate progress effectively to stakeholders and leadership
  • Balance maintaining existing systems while prioritizing new developments
  • Hire and mentor a diverse, high-performing team fostering inclusion

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead innovative engineering initiatives
  • Work in a collaborative and inclusive environment
  • Access to professional development and mentorship
  • Engagement with high-impact projects that enhance customer experience
  • Support for diverse hiring and team dynamics
Full Job Description
The Page Systems Team builds high-throughput, low-latency backend systems that power Netflix Member Experience Pages, such as the Homepage and Search, delivering real-time responses to UI clients, bringing Netflix experience to hundreds of millions of Netflix members. Our vision is to create a flexible product platform capable of generating diverse pages at Netflix scale in real time, while enabling our product engineering and multiple business domain partners to rapidly innovate on their experiences through highly reliable self-service interfaces.

This team sits at the cross section of product, engineering, science, and data, and you will play a highly cross-functional role partnering with product engineering teams, cross domain partners, business analytics, product management, machine learning, and data teams to ensure our services are functionally and operationally excellent.

We are seeking an engineering leader to guide our team in developing this product platform. This leader will be instrumental in advancing our Platform systems and driving Netflix's success. We are looking for someone who is technically proficient and can cultivate a collaborative and inclusive environment, mentoring a diverse team of engineers, including experienced engineers and newcomers. The ideal candidate should be a strategic thinker focused on enhancing our architecture to unlock new product capabilities and drive business impact. Above all, this leader should embody Netflix's core values, promoting creativity, curiosity, and excellence.

In this role, you will:
  • Lead a team of strong engineers building high-scale, zero-to-one systems.
  • Drive architecture, design, and execution of product infrastructure systems.
  • Develop a strategic roadmap focused on incremental delivery and high business impact.
  • Define success metrics, align migration goals, and drive platform adoption.
  • Communicate progress effectively to stakeholders, customers, and senior leadership.
  • Balance platform evolution by maintaining existing systems while prioritizing next-gen development.
  • Hire, mentor, and grow a diverse, high-performing team, fostering an inclusive team culture.


What we are looking for in you:
  • An engineering leader with 4 - 6 years of experience leading backend distributed systems teams, platform experience is a plus.
  • A leadership style that prioritizes giving and receiving feedback, fostering new ideas, and empowering others, without micromanagement.
  • Ability to balance operating inwards to lead a high performing engineering team with operating outwards to build strong and effective partner relations.
  • Strong technical acumen and ability to act as a technical advisor to the team.
  • Focus on operational excellence of large Tier-1 systems.
  • A track record of hiring diverse, highly talented engineers and growing successful, highly impactful teams.
  • Excellence in communicating context with the team, stakeholders, partners, and leadership. Ability to drive the team's roadmap by connecting the dots between your team's work and business needs, managing expectations, and navigating competing priorities.
  • A BS or higher in Computer Science/Engineering or a related discipline.


Generally, 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 $436,000.00 - $791,000.00.

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. Learn more here.

About Netflix

Netflix, Inc. is an American media company founded on August 29, 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, and currently based in Los Gatos, California, with production offices and stages at the Los Angeles-based Hollywood studios (formerly old Warner Brothers studios) and the Albuquerque Studios (formerly ABQ studios). It operates an eponymous over-the-top subscription video on-demand service, which showcases acquired and original programming as well as third-party content licensed from other production companies and distributors. Netflix is also the first streaming media company to be a member of the Motion Picture Association.
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Size
11,300 employees
Market Cap
$127.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.7 billion
Founded
1997
5 Year Trend
+27.5%
Revenue
$24.9 billion
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