Engineering Manager, Netflix
Search & Voice Systems
$190-920k
Streaming service
Job no longer available
Streaming service
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$190-920k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Entertainment, like friendship, is a fundamental human need; it changes how we feel and gives us common ground. Netflix is better entertainment at lower cost and greater scale than the world has ever seen. They want to entertain everyone, and make the world smile.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a seasoned engineering leader with excellent product sense to lead an amazing team of engineers as we scale for continued growth
- Experience leading teams responsible for building high-traffic distributed systems to power Search, Recommendations, or Personalization experiences in the product
- Strong technical acumen and can act as a credible technical advisor to the team, set and enforce a high-quality bar for code and scalable system design, and be a mentor for the team
- A track record of hiring and growing diverse, highly talented tenured engineers deep into their careers to maximize their impact
- Excellent at communicating context with the team, stakeholders, partners, and leadership, giving and receiving feedback, fostering new ideas, and empowering others without micromanagement
- Demonstrated ability to develop, drive, and execute a technical vision and roadmap
- Able to provide thought partnership to your business stakeholders and are actively sought out by Product Managers (PMs). You can take a conceptual idea and transform it into an actionable test that is both feasible and meets business needs
- Experience managing hybrid teams with members and partners distributed across (US) geographies & time zones
What the job involves
- The Search & Voice Systems team builds the backend systems that help millions of members globally find and discover content they’ll love via Search, Voice UI, and other interactive experiences in the Netflix product
- The team is at the forefront of LLM innovation in the Consumer product and collaborates closely with machine learning research scientists, product managers, data engineers, and other engineering teams to deliver a personalized and interactive search experience, leveraging and paving the path for the latest advancements in LLMs
- In this role, you will lead a team of engineers specializing in search technologies and distributed systems to help pave the future of Search in the Netflix product!
- Balance multiple business and product priorities to deliver maximal impact
- Develop an engineering roadmap that positions our systems for scale and continued innovation
- Build a high-performing, inclusive, and diverse team of top engineering talent
- Build strong and trusting partnerships with Product Managers, Engineering leadership, and Business stakeholders
- Be a role model of the Netflix culture
- Contribute, shape, and influence the broader Personalization roadmap
- Support your team by helping them understand priorities and providing context to help them make better decisions
- Drive success in a flat organization with minimal process and a heavy emphasis on individual responsibility
- Understand the business and build domain expertise in functions relevant to your systems
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Netflix was started when one of the co-founders had received a $40 late fee after failing to return a film on time. Now, Netflix is one of the fastest growing technology companies, reinventing the entertainment space by providing high quality content for low fees.
This is becoming an increasingly competitive space, with deep-pocketed rivals including Amazon, Disney, Apple and AT&T. They are all spending big on content and pricing cheaply in a battle to win subscribers.
After a dwindling number of subscribers due to tough competition in 2022, Netflix is focused and committed to improving its core service which is its TV, movies and now games going forward. Post-IPO funding of $183 million from Winslow Capital at the end of 2023 followed the previous year's dumping of shares by the same company after Netflix's first loss of subscribers. This capital indicates a shifting perspective on Netflix's outlook, which saw a year-end subscriber boost.
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2000
$50m
SERIES E
Jul 1999
$30m
SERIES D
Total funding: $103.5m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Inclusion
- You work well with people of different backgrounds, identities, values and cultures
- You are excited to help build diverse teams where everyone feels welcomed and respected
- You recognize we all have biases and work to counteract them
- You take action if someone is marginalizing a colleague
- You treat everyone with respect regardless of their position at Netflix
- Integrity
- You exhibit and are known for candor and transparency
- You only say things about colleagues that you are willing to share with them
- You admit mistakes openly and share learnings widely
- You always share relevant information internally, even when uncomfortable
- You act with good intent and trust your colleagues to do the same
- Passion
- You care deeply about Netflix‘s success
- You inspire others with your drive for excellence
- You are excited about your work
- You are proud to entertain the world
- You are tenacious and optimistic
- Innovation
- You develop new ideas that prove impactful
- You look for every opportunity to reduce complexity and keep things simple
- You challenge prevailing assumptions, and suggest better approaches
- You are flexible and thrive in a constantly evolving organization
- Curiosity
- You learn rapidly and eagerly
- You seek alternate perspectives to improve your ideas
- You see patterns and connections that other people miss
- You seek to understand members’ changing tastes and desires
Company HQ
Los Gatos, CA
Founders
Reed Hastings
(Chairman)Served two years with the Peace Corps in Switzerland. Studied Computer Science at Stanford, and founded Pure Software (which sold for a substantial profit before Netflix). Previously a Board Member at Microsoft and Facebook.
Greg Peters
(Co-CEO)Previously Netflix COO and CPO, SVP and CE of Product Development at Macrovision, VP of Engineering at Mediabolic, Director at Redhat inc, VP Engineering at NOCpulse.
People progressing
Joined as a Content Strategy Associate in LA. Moved to London after 6 months. They have been promoted to Head of Content Strategy & Analysis UK.
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