Engineering Manager, Telemetry & Logging - Infrastructure

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.

As Netflix continues to grow, we are venturing into exciting new frontiers that help our members find the content they’ll most enjoy. At the core of all this innovation is reliable, high-quality data which fuels progress in the form of new user experiences and personalization.

Netflix is looking for a seasoned engineering leader to head the Netflix Telemetry & Infrastructure team. This team is responsible for the consumer-facing logging infrastructure which enables analysis, experimentation, and personalization across the entire Netflix experience. In this role, you will be responsible for building and leading a team of extraordinary engineers who will partner across the company to build cutting edge improvements to the Netflix product. You will help influence and guide projects from end-to-end: ideation to production.

To be successful in this role, you need to be a strong people manager; great at giving and receiving feedback, fostering new ideas, and empowering others. You also need a strong software engineering background, to be a quick and data-driven learner, to have proven data engineering and system design skills, and the ability to lead large multi-disciplinary, cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities:

• Vision: You intuitively understand business and technology and you leverage that to guide a team by providing relevant context and inspiration.

• Recruiting: You are constantly on the lookout for talent and have a knack for recognizing and attracting top-tier engineers to your team. You understand the importance of building an amazing team that is additive and diverse, and the value it brings to the overall company.

• Feedback & Development: You will coach and guide employees through their strengths and weaknesses through regular feedback.

• Contribute to Data Science & Engineering Leadership. You will be expected to participate in leadership conversations and interview for engineering teams across Netflix.

• Partnership: You will continue to establish strong relationships with both business and technical leaders across Netflix.

​Skills & Characteristics:

• You are a natural people leader who also demonstrates humility. You care deeply about people, and their success. You invest in your relationships, so that you have an understanding of the whole person and their perspective.

• You’re not afraid of hard conversations, and are gifted at coaching your colleagues through difficult situations. You are comfortable sharing your perspective on challenging people dynamics.

• You seek to de-escalate tense situations, and are creative & flexible in finding balance with partners to maximize impact.

• You are a strong communicator, and self-aware about how others perceive your comments. As someone in a leadership role you aim to be assertive, not passive nor aggressive, in providing input, support, and feedback.

• You are forward-looking and able to anticipate the investments Netflix should be making to improve efficiency, innovation, and alignment. You identify areas for continuous improvement, and persistently advocate for action to address them.

• You have an impeccable eye for technical talent, and a history of influencing hiring decisions across organizations. In this role you will be expected to understand how the Data Science & Engineering organization’s broad hiring strategy translates into the needs of our team, and our partners.

• You’re allergic to micromanagement. You prefer to give context, delegate, and watch amazing people exceed your hopes and expectations.

• You work hard, and you have healthy boundaries. You know how to prioritize both your work and personal commitments without set boundaries or guidelines.

Preferred Requirements:

• You have 10+ years software development experience. You have a mastery of object-oriented design and design patterns, and programming skills.

• You have 5+ years of engineering team management experience.

• You have a MS in Computer Science/Engineering, or related field.

• You have used big data technologies (i.e. Spark/MapReduce/Hadoop, etc.) at one point in your career, and have built web-scale data pipelines.

• You have used SQL and reporting tools at one point in your career, and are analytically savvy.

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 $$360,000 - $920,000.

[US ONLY] 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 here.

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.

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