Technical Program Manager 5 - Growth Commerce Platform Engineering

Netflix • Los Gatos, CA

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About The Position

At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. Together, we are writing the next episode - pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom and making the unimaginable a reality. We are a dream team obsessed with the uncomfortable excitement of discovering what happens when you merge creativity, intuition and cutting-edge technology. Come be a part of what’s next.
The Role:
Netflix's Growth Commerce Platform builds and operates the massively scaled, highly available, resilient, and accurate tier-0 commerce systems that collect and manage 99% of Netflix’s Revenue across 260 million+ consumers. These data—and compute-intensive backend systems are Netflix's financial backbone. This role will work closely with Commerce Platform teams and across Growth Engineering and Product teams to ensure the smooth execution of engineering-led initiatives to build commerce capabilities and resilience of services across membership subscriptions, pricing & plans, invoicing, payments, and partnerships. We are looking for an experienced Technical Program Manager who can partner closely with engineering managers, engineers, product managers, Data Science teams, and other technical program managers to execute critical, complex, and ambitious technical deliverables. If you’re looking for a technical and highly dynamic opportunity that will shape the future of Netflix Commerce, we’d love to talk to you!

Requirements

• Understanding of challenges in high-scale distributed systems, architectures, and data layers.
• Ability to communicate and partner successfully with deeply technical backend engineers.
• Experience in identifying tradeoffs, surfacing needs for clarity, and driving decision-making.
• Highly skilled in orchestrating programs with many moving parts—people, needs, and technologies.
• Excellent written communication skills and ability to present technical content to non-technical audiences including clear articulations of business impact and technical constraints tailored to the audience.
• Data-driven mindset in decision-making.
• A natural inclination to structure and plan, balanced by the ability to pivot with unknowns.
• Attention to detail and ability to represent engineering concerns.
• Background in CS or related Engineering.
• 4+ years of experience driving large-scale SW projects in addition to 4+ years of experience as a backend engineer building or testing stateful systems.
• Domain knowledge of Commerce systems working at mega-scale (millions of requests per second).
• Experience managing projects across cross-functional teams, building sustainable processes, and coordinating release schedules.
• Self-starter who enjoys tackling 0 to 1 problem spaces and quickly bringing organization and direction.

Responsibilities

• Spearhead cross-functional initiatives to increase the resilience of tier-0 commerce flows.
• Lead Execution for highly cross-functional initiatives along with engineering Leads to accomplish highly ambitious goals to evolve commerce at Netflix.
• Build repeatable templates and practices for execution and communication across the Commerce Platform and beyond.
• Aggregate and track overall engineering risks in delivery to prioritize, and resolve them.
• Manage cross-functional dependencies, risks, and changes across engineering-led initiatives, such as new capabilities, system migrations, and initiatives that touch multiple teams within the Commerce Platform and Consumer Engineering.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed