Engineering Manager - Data Developer Experience

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

About the Team

The Analytics & Data Experience (ADX) organization plays a critical role in enabling Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers, and Data Scientists by enhancing the end-to-end developer experience on Netflix’s Data Platform. We go beyond building infrastructure—we focus on enablement - creating platforms and tooling that reduce complexity, accelerate development, and empower data practitioners to solve complex analytical problems and drive innovation at scale.

We’re hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the Data Developer Experience (DDX) team—a dream team of eleven stellar engineers focused on eliminating toil, reducing friction, and simplifying complexity for data practitioners. The team brings modern software engineering practices to data development and continuously improves workflows to boost productivity across Netflix. 

The DDX team is responsible for a broad and impactful portfolio that includes remote development environments, data pipeline management tooling such as Dataflow and the Data Auditor framework, the Data Platform SDK, IDE optimization for data practitioners, Notebooks infrastructure, and more.

What You Will Do

• Partner to deliver vision and strategy while maximizing adoption of current and future technologies in the space of data developer productivity.

• Leverage deep domain expertise in data developer productivity and infrastructure to guide work across critical domains. 

• Influence strategy and decision-making across ADX and beyond, driving organizational success.

• Form trusting cross-functional partnerships to align a wide range of stakeholders to ensure our offerings meet their needs, selflessly prioritizing work beyond the scope of your own domain.

• Build, scale, and grow a team of outstanding engineers, challenge them to bring their best selves to work every day, and deliver industry-leading results in stability, performance, and efficiency.

• Balance smart risks, investment in foundational technical work, tech debt reduction, and fast iteration to deliver timely results across multiple critical strategies

• Collaborate deeply with adjacent platform teams (e.g. compute, storage, engines, metadata, and UI teams) to ensure a cohesive and reliable end-to-end developer experience.

• Ensure the delivery of reliable and intuitive internal tools and platforms that meet the needs of data practitioners' workflows. Oversee their development and operations, ensuring high availability and minimal operational overhead.

What We are Looking For

• A proven track record in Engineering Leadership, preferably leading high-performing, geographically distributed Engineers. 

• The ability to dive deep into technical strategy and vision in order to facilitate trade-offs and shape products with different layers of context in mind.

• Proven experience building and scaling distributed systems and developer platforms that support critical business workflows.

• Domain Expertise that you can translate across various critical domains, influencing platform direction beyond your immediate team.

• Excellence in aligning cross-functional partners (like product managers) and stakeholders to deliver high-impact results.

• Willingness and desire to drive clarity in ambiguous spaces, and influence immediate and adjacent teams through trust, curiosity, technical insight, and informed opinions.

• Proven track record of helping teams navigate complexity, make smart trade-offs, deliver timely results on critical priorities amidst numerous demands and complex business priorities. 

• Inclusive Leadership - Experience in building and leading high-performance software engineering teams with a focus on inclusion and diversity, ensuring the attraction and retention of top talent from diverse backgrounds and that all voices are heard to inform direction.

Further Reading

• https://netflixtechblog.com/ready-to-go-sample-data-pipelines-with-dataflow-17440a9e141d

• https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/investigation-of-a-workbench-ui-latency-issue-faa017b4653d

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A few more things about us:

As a team, we come from many different backgrounds and countries. Our fields of education range from the humanities to engineering to computer science, and we strive to give people the opportunity to wear different hats, should they choose to. We strongly believe this diversity and agility have helped us build an inclusive and empathetic environment, and we are looking forward to adding your perspective to the mix!

Generally, our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top-of-market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $190,000 - $920,000.

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. See more details about our Benefits here

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.