Engineering Manager - Asset Personalization Platform

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 Opportunity: 
The Netflix user interface is enriched by a variety of assets, including artwork, trailers, synopses, and other metadata, which are crucial to enhancing the member experience. These assets provide essential context for recommended content, enabling members to make informed viewing choices. To optimize this experience, we personalize these assets, ensuring that the most suitable artwork, trailers, and more are displayed to align with each member's unique interests. A comprehensive overview is available here.
 

As Netflix expands its diverse catalog of movies, TV shows, games, and live content, we are committed to building a scalable platform that meets the asset requirements of these varied content types. The Asset Personalization Platform team is dedicated to developing high-throughput, low-latency systems that deliver personalized assets in real-time to Netflix UI clients. Our vision is to create a product platform that offers flexibility and customization of assets, empowering product engineering and machine learning teams to innovate and experiment with new member experiences at an accelerated pace while driving business impact. This team of distributed systems engineers collaborates with a wide array of cross-functional teams, including Content Creative teams, Machine Learning researchers, Product Management, Product Design, Data Engineering, and various product and client engineering teams.
 

To realize our vision, we are seeking an engineering leader to guide our team in developing a product platform that enables the rapid creation of innovative and personalized member experiences. This leader will be instrumental in advancing our asset personalization systems and driving Netflix's success. We are looking for someone who is technically proficient and can cultivate a collaborative and inclusive environment, mentoring a diverse team of engineers, including experienced engineers and newcomers. The ideal candidate should be a strategic thinker focused on enhancing our architecture to unlock new product capabilities and drive business impact. Above all, this leader should embody Netflix's core values, promoting creativity, curiosity, and excellence.

What we are looking for in you:

• An engineering leader with 3 - 5 years of experience leading backend distributed systems teams.
• Strong technical acumen and ability to act as a technical advisor to the team.
• Experience building and operating distributed systems with a direct impact on the customer experience. Experience building product platforms is a bonus!
• A passion for improving consumer experiences through strong partnerships with product leaders, ability to influence product direction and roadmaps.
• A track record of hiring diverse, highly talented engineers and growing successful, highly impactful teams.
• Excellence in communicating context with the team, stakeholders, partners, and leadership. Ability to drive the team’s roadmap by connecting the dots between your team’s work and business needs, managing expectations, and navigating competing priorities.
• Domain experience with personalization, AB testing, machine learning, cloud computing, and Java.
• A leadership style that prioritizes giving and receiving feedback, fostering new ideas, and empowering others without micromanagement.
• A BS in Computer Science/Engineering or a related discipline.

At Netflix, we carefully consider a wide range of compensation factors to determine your personal top of the market. We rely on market indicators to determine compensation and consider your specific job, skills, and experience to get it right. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary and will also be dependent on your location. 

The overall market range for roles in this area of Netflix is typically $190,000 - $920,000. 

This market range is based on total compensation (vs. only base salary), which is in line with our compensation philosophy. Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here. 

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

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