Senior Engineering Manager, Privacy Infrastructure Engineering

Netflix•Remote, OR

1d•$678,000 - $1,034,000

About The Position

Netflix is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Privacy Infrastructure Engineering (PIE), part of its Privacy & Data Protection Engineering organization. PIE partners across Netflix to engineer, assess, and deploy foundational systems that support appropriate data stewardship and end-to-end data protection throughout the data lifecycle. The team develops horizontal privacy architectures, automates privacy-rights fulfillment, and uses systematic gap discovery to evaluate risk and support investment decisions, working with partners in Data Platform Infrastructure, Data Sciences Engineering, Security, Legal, and Product. The role leads and scales a high-performing team of software and privacy engineers developing capabilities that address complex compliance demands and support business initiatives. In close collaboration with executive leadership, the manager will shape multi-year roadmaps for consent, data collection, and user privacy controls integrated across Netflix’s data ecosystems. The position requires technical guidance, cross-functional alignment, and platform capabilities that allow product teams to implement foundational privacy requirements. The leader will bring technical expertise and organizational leadership to infrastructure strategy, architecture, hiring, mentorship, and program execution. The role also involves applying GenAI to data-protection goals, establishing executive-facing performance indicators, and using continuous feedback to improve program effectiveness and long-term impact.

Requirements

Experience leading and growing a large engineering team, including managers or leads, with a hands-on technical background.
Strong technical credibility and system-architecture expertise.
Experience developing data-protection or privacy tooling across domains such as consent architectures, classification frameworks, retention policies, and governance.
Deep knowledge of data privacy and security, including experience designing and building infrastructure-level privacy solutions such as consent, classification, retention, and access controls.
Experience managing data through its lifecycle across multiple lines of business and understanding its value.
Ability to balance risk reduction with business goals.
Experience setting multi-year roadmaps and building programs from the ground up.
Experience using gap discovery to prioritize and justify investment and making timely decisions in ambiguous situations.
Ability to build trusted partnerships with senior leaders in Engineering, Legal, Product, and Security.
Experience using GenAI to scale privacy and data protection and defining metrics reported to leadership.
Ability to coach and develop people, hire well, and build an inclusive team.

Responsibilities

Lead and scale a high-performing team of software and privacy engineers.
Develop multi-year strategic roadmaps for privacy infrastructure, consent, data collection, and user privacy controls.
Provide decisive technical guidance and foster cross-discipline alignment to deliver platform capabilities for product teams.
Develop and deploy foundational systems for end-to-end data protection across the data lifecycle.
Use systematic gap discovery to evaluate risk, prioritize work, and support investment decisions.
Build privacy programs and infrastructure capabilities, including solutions for consent, classification, retention, and access controls.
Leverage GenAI to automate data-protection goals and drive user-experience innovations.
Establish key performance indicators and metrics for executive visibility into organizational risk and program outcomes.
Coach and develop team members, hire effectively, and build an inclusive team.
Use continuous feedback loops to refine program effectiveness and drive long-term impact.
Partner with executive leadership and senior stakeholders in Engineering, Legal, Product, and Security, connecting technology work to business goals.