Engineering Manager, Live Discovery - Remote Eligible

Engineering Manager, Live Discovery

USA - Remote

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 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.

Live content is delighting Netflix members and driving significant business impact, delivering record breaking streaming numbers during Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson, and successfully streaming WWE recurring Live shows, amongst a portfolio of other launches. The Member Experience Core Systems (MECS) Live Discovery team innovates and maintains new features and capabilities for Live titles, which are pushing the boundaries of our capabilities.

We are looking for an engineering manager to lead a team of engineers focused on evolving the Live experience for our members. You will play a highly cross-functional role partnering with product management, design, personalization, operations, data teams, and other engineering teams to innovate on the Live experience and ensure successful live events.

In this role, you will:

• Lead a team of strong engineers building high-scale, innovative solutions, sometimes zero-to-one systems.
• Drive the architecture, design, and execution of product and infra innovation.
• Develop a strategic roadmap focused on incremental delivery and high business impact.
• Lead the operations of Discovery Systems for high-profile Live titles
• Communicate progress effectively to stakeholders, customers, and senior leadership.
• Provide thought partnership for product and design partners.
• 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 3 - 5 years of experience leading backend distributed systems teams.
• Experience with innovation, working directly with product and UI teams.
• Ability to operate launches and navigate challenging situations just-in-time.
• Strong technical acumen and ability to act as a technical advisor to the team.
• Experience leading teams responsible for building high-traffic distributed systems.
• A passion for improving consumer experiences through strong partnerships with product leaders and the ability to influence product direction and roadmaps.
• 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 leadership style that prioritizes giving and receiving feedback, fostering new ideas, and empowering others without micromanagement.

At Netflix, we carefully consider a wide range of compensation factors to determine your personal top of the market. We rely on market indicators to determine compensation and consider your specific job, skills, and experience to get it right. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary and will also be dependent on your location.

The overall market range for roles in this area of Netflix is typically $190,000 - $920,000.

This market range is based on total compensation (vs. only base salary), which is in line with our compensation philosophy. Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more 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.