Engineering Manager - Asset Personalization Platform

Netflix•,

40d•$436,000 - $791,000

About The Position

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. 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.

Requirements

An engineering leader with 4+ 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.
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.
A BS in Computer Science/Engineering or a related discipline.

Nice To Haves

Experience building product platforms is a bonus!
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.

Responsibilities

Guide the team in developing a product platform that enables the rapid creation of innovative and personalized member experiences.
Advance asset personalization systems and drive Netflix's success.
Cultivate a collaborative and inclusive environment.
Mentor a diverse team of engineers, including experienced engineers and newcomers.
Enhance architecture to unlock new product capabilities and drive business impact.
Promote creativity, curiosity, and excellence.