Netflix is looking to reduce cognitive load for engineers by abstracting infrastructure complexity and integrating AI-native capabilities into their foundational systems. The goal is to simplify the software development lifecycle, transforming disparate tools into a seamless 'paved road' that accelerates innovation, impacting how content is created, managed, and delivered to hundreds of millions of members worldwide.
Requirements
- 7+ years in Product Management building and scaling technical developer platforms, or workflow automation tools
- Deep technical fluency in distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and the software development lifecycle (SDLC) with the ability to debate architectural trade-offs with engineering leads
- Developer-Centric Mindset: You view internal platforms as products that must delight their users. You understand the high cost of context switching and are dedicated to removing friction from engineering development
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to Connect technical platform capabilities to broader business goals
- High AI Literacy: Experience launching or integrating AI-enabled developer tools (e.g., coding assistants, AI agents) or leveraging AI to optimize workflow automation.
Responsibilities
- Define Platform Strategy: Drive the long-term vision and roadmap for foundational application platforms, balancing immediate engineering needs with long-term architectural shifts (e.g., integrating AI-driven development workflows).
- Simplify Developer Experience: Identify and eliminate friction points for Netflix engineers. Deliver cohesive managed runtimes and developer solutions that enable teams to build complex, stateful applications without managing underlying infrastructure.
- Champion a "no-ops" mindset where platform tooling abstracts operational complexity.
- Accelerate Adoption: Partner with engineering leaders across Content and Studio teams to drive migration from legacy systems to modern platforms
- Measure Success: Define and track metrics related to platform reliability, and adoption, ensuring our investments deliver measurable improvements in engineering productivity.
- Evangelize the Platform: Act as the primary advocate for the application developer platform. Author strategy memos and represent the team's work to senior leadership.
Other
- Influence without authority: Proven ability to align cross-functional teams and drive organization-wide change management and platform adoption.
- Communication skills: Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for diverse audiences.
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