Netflix Engineering Manager - Online Data Stores Caching 

United States, California 

541591812

What you will do:

• Partner to deliver the vision, strategy, and adoption of current and future technologies in the space of online caching datastores.

• Form trusting cross-functional partnerships to align many engineering teams and ensure our solutions meet their needs, selflessly prioritizing work beyond the scope of your own domain

• Build, scale, and grow a team of outstanding engineers, challenge them to bring their best selves to work every day, and deliver industry-leading results in stability, performance, and efficiency

• Balance smart risks, investment in foundational technical work, paying off tech debt, and incremental improvements to deliver timely results across multiple critical strategies

• Ensure the delivery of reliable, scalable, and intuitive data solutions that meet critical business needs. Oversee the development, deployment, and maintenance of Tier 0 systems, ensuring high availability, rapid response times, and minimal operational overhead.

• Leverage deep domain expertise in distributed systems and infrastructure to guide work across critical domains. Influence strategy and decision-making beyond immediate teams, driving organizational success.

• Experienced Engineering Leader
  - An experienced engineering leader who can drive a team of talented, geographically distributed engineers to achieve their best work while building and maintaining strong partnerships with peers and stakeholders.

• Technical Strategy and Vision
  - Possesses the ability to dive deep to facilitate technical strategy trade-offs and zoom out to understand the big picture, shaping the product effectively.

• Platform & Distributed Systems Expertise
  - Proven experience in building and running extremely reliable distributed platform systems that support high-scale and critical Tier0 workloads. This includes managing a 24x7 on-call rotation, ensuring 99.95+% availability, fast response times, and short mean-time-to-restore services.

• Influence and Collaboration
  - Able to positively influence immediate and adjacent teams through curiosity and informed opinions, fostering a collaborative environment.

• Delivering Results and Prioritization
  - Proven track record of helping teams deliver timely results on critical priorities amidst numerous demands. Partners with product and engineering management to influence the right areas for investment.

• Talent Development
  - Experience maintaining high talent density in software engineering teams through coaching and mentoring, with exposure to growth and critical conversations.

• Inclusive Leadership
  - Experience in building and leading software engineering teams with a focus on inclusion and diversity, ensuring the attraction and retention of top talent from diverse backgrounds and that all voices are heard to inform direction.

• Customer Focus & Execution Excellence:
  Demonstrated ability to align technical initiatives with business needs, delivering high-impact results in critical areas. Experience in managing and maintaining Tier 0 systems focusing on reliability and performance.

• Domain Expertise & Influence:
  Combines deep domain expertise in Tier 0 products with the ability to influence thinking beyond immediate teams. Drives strategic direction across various critical domains.

• Strategic Decision-Making & Communication:

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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 $190,000 - $920,000.

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