Engineering Manager, DevEx

Netflix

Netflix

Software Engineering, Other Engineering
United States · Remote
Posted on Nov 27, 2024

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.

The Role

The Netflix Change Automation team is crucial to our Developer Experience organization. It focuses on making infrastructure changes seamless and reducing the manual effort required across the engineering fleet. This team is responsible for creating a developer platform that facilitates updates, migrations, and software changes throughout the engineering organization. Their primary goals include reducing friction and cognitive load, minimizing manual interventions during migrations, and enabling the adoption of new technologies through automated code changes, validation, and deployment.

We are looking for a seasoned engineering manager to lead the team in creating a best-in-class platform that allows customers to deliver fully automated solutions in a self-service environment. You will work on initiatives like the Change Automation platform, which aims to accelerate technology change and reduce toil, and the Fleetwide Change orchestration system, which seeks to minimize human interventions in campaigns.

Who You Are:

  • An experienced engineering leader dedicated to people development, fostering a robust team environment, and cultivating an inclusive culture

  • Possess excellent communication skills, both internally and externally

  • Experience leading full-stack teams within a centralized infrastructure engineering organization
    A superb collaborator across teams who is proactive, able to drive alignment, and can clearly articulate tradeoffs with partner teams

  • Skilled in working with customers and demonstrating customer empathy by deeply understanding user needs, what constitutes a good user experience, and the ability to translate and prioritize user requirements into actionable tasks

  • Approach problems with a product mindset with experience in close partnerships with Product Management and Design

  • Proficient in data-driven decision-making

  • A creative problem solver who recognizes that conventional methods won't achieve our goals

  • An informed leader with a background in Software Engineering

  • Someone comfortable wearing multiple hats depending on the needs of the team

  • Accomplished in driving large-scale migrations and have the lessons learned to prove it!

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

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.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background 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.