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Netflix Principal Product Manager Cloud Infrastructure - Networking 
United States, Oregon 
291706573

23.06.2024
In this pivotal role, you will shape the product vision and strategy across the entire networking stack, forging strong partnerships with your engineering teams and key stakeholders. This role spans L3 to L7 networking, from networking primitives to edge gateways processing millions of requests per second:
- Service Communication:Ensure a secure, reliable service mesh with intelligent service discovery, traffic management, observability, and enhanced features for load balancing, retry policies, rate limiting, circuit breaking, and more, reducing application complexity and improving performance.
- Traffic Management:Dynamically steer, shape, and shift traffic within and across regions and externally to balance latency, availability, and cost.
- Network Design & Topology:Design and manage the network, ensuring secure and efficient configuration and placement of elements and low-level primitives such as VPCs, load balancers, DNS, and subnets/IP management, aiming for a seamless user experience.
- Network Observability:Provide a comprehensive network observability platform for monitoring, analysis, troubleshooting, and reporting on network topology, health, and performance.

What You Will Do
  • Deeply understand customer needs, product analytics, and industry innovation to drive the product vision and strategy for Networking, maximizing business and customer impact
  • Partner closely with senior management and engineering teams to define and align with stakeholders on vision, strategy, and roadmaps
  • Develop product roadmaps in partnership with relevant product and engineering teams that execute on product vision and strategy and inform our engineering teams of what problems need to be solved
  • Foster a metrics-driven environment that encourages quality experimentation and sets high standards for measuring product success
  • Stay informed about industry advancements, influence their direction, and conduct comprehensive buy vs. build analysis to align with state-of-the-art solutions, encouraging ROI-based decisions
  • Foster a collaborative environment with Netflix engineers, creating continuous feedback loops to ensure we're solving the right problems and driving maximum impact for Netflix
  • Exhibit robust problem-solving and decision-making skills, tackling both technical and strategic challenges in innovative ways, and leveraging both data and intuition to make strategic choices in the face of ambiguity and complexity
  • Ensure thoughtful product evolution that addresses product lifecycle and adoption experience
  • Help evolve our customer engagement model, communication strategy, and prioritization and planning/roadmapping practices
What We’re Looking For
  • 8+ years of experience as a Technical Product Manager
  • Demonstrated expertise and passion in networking and developer experience
  • Proven track record of managing & evolving a product portfolio and driving product vision & strategy
  • A healthy blend of deep technical knowledge with customer-focused mindset and empathy
  • Strategic thinker that can connect customer use cases to technology solutions and think holistically about end-to-end experience
  • Ability to manage a portfolio of bigger and smaller bets while balancing short-term goals and long-term vision
  • Comfortable applying a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to define success
  • Leverages product intuition and judgment to solve problems and make decisions without perfect information
  • Insatiable curiosity to learn new domains, keep up with industry innovation, and constantly ask ‘why’
  • Excellent communication skills; timely communication with clear expectations
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 $340,000 - $975,000.