Netflix Senior Engineering Manager - Critical Operations Reliability 

United States, Oregon 

756594428

Role Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: You will lead & mentor the C.O.R.E SRE team while also setting the strategic vision and technical direction for worldclass system reliability, observability, and scalability.

• Reliability: Your leadership will enable consumer-facing product teams to adopt standardized strategies for meeting reliability targets (eg SLO/SLI, error budgets etc).

• Incident Management: You will manage high-severity incidents impacting Member Experience and/or Revenue across {SVOD, Live, Ads, Games}, conduct post-incident reviews, and provide ongoing incident trend analysis to prevent recurrence and improve system architecture.

• Operational Excellence: You will drive down the operational cost of service ownership by optimizing system reliability and scalability via resilience experiments.

• Automation and Tools: You will use both toward outcomes like easier deployment, monitoring, indicent response, alerting, resolution, etc.

• Collaboration and Integration: You'll work closely with SREs, Dev teams, and Service owners to integrate reliability practices into SDLC and manage shared accountability for service health.

Requirements

• Proven experience in a Senior Leadership Role within Site Reliability Engineering or a related domain.

• Substantial experience commanding high-pressure and large-scale incidents.

• Being open to participating in an on-call rotation, with shifts covering 24/7.

• Extensive experience with high scale cloud platforms with a strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, and software engineering.

• Experience working in a collaborative environment, influencing stakeholders across various levels of the organization. Ability to build strong relationships with engineering, product, and business teams.

• Strong problem-solving abilities and a proactive approach to challenges.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related fields or equivalent work experience.

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