Netflix is looking to automate large-scale content ingestion, replacing existing manual processes, to support its growing content offerings and partnerships.
Requirements
- Experience delivering and operating highly reliable, enterprise-grade products and services, including 24x7 on-call support.
- Strategic thinker with a strong product mindset, able to define and communicate product vision and align it with organizational goals.
- Skilled at prioritizing and aligning team efforts with business objectives; have the courage to pivot based on broader impact.
- Experienced in driving the adoption of KPIs and leading indicators to monitor and improve system health.
- Experience with content ingestion systems
- Experience building distributed systems at scale
- Experience leading engineering teams with both Backend and UI/UX engineers
Responsibilities
- Serve as Netflix’s representative in discussions with external content partners’ engineering teams, refining API and SLA contracts while demonstrating strong judgment to balance partner needs with Netflix’s interests and risk management.
- Partner with product managers, designers, engineers, and other leaders to drive your team’s product vision, strategy, and adoption across stakeholders.
- Foster a culture of accountability, ensuring timely and reliable delivery of the team’s roadmap to support business needs.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor, guiding thoughtful decision-making in ambiguous situations.
- Connect the dots across teams to prioritize work beyond your immediate domain.
- Communicate complex ideas clearly and influence decisions among diverse stakeholders.
- Balance business goals with strong engineering practices, investing in foundational work and continuous improvements.
Other
- 5+ years building and managing high-performing, inclusive teams, attracting top talent, fostering accountability, and ensuring all voices inform decisions.
- Cultivate open communication, empowering team members to give feedback and recognize achievements and growth areas.
- Excellent collaborator and communicator, able to build strong cross-functional partnerships and influence the strategic direction of partners and stakeholders.
- Proven ability to deliver timely results on critical priorities and guide investment decisions in partnership with product and engineering leaders.
- Strong communicator with teams, stakeholders, and leadership, including across global teams.
