Engineering Manager, Metadata Distribution Engineering

Join Netflix, the world's leading entertainment service, and play a crucial role in shaping the user experience for our 278 million paid members across 190 countries. As an Engineering Manager in our Content Engineering team, you will lead a team of highly driven senior engineers in developing and maintaining the infrastructure that powers our extensive catalog library, structure, and liveness.

The Metadata Distribution team is responsible for verifying, computing, packaging, and distributing metadata that drives the Netflix product. This includes influencing recommendations, content experience, and playback. As an Engineering Manager, you will coach and provide career development opportunities to your team, establish strong partnerships with upstream and downstream teams, and drive technology innovation.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Coaching and developing a team of senior engineers
• Establishing partnerships with upstream and downstream teams
• Driving technology innovation and architecture decisions
• Anticipating and adapting to new company initiatives and their impact on metadata distribution
• Representing the Content Engineering team in cross-functional forums
• Challenging designs and proposing solutions for highly scalable distributed systems

To be successful in this role, you should have:

• Prior expertise in data lifecycle management, including modeling, movement, and distribution in highly scalable and low-latency environments
• Experience as an Engineering Manager, leading teams working on mission-critical distributed systems
• A systems thinking approach, with a strong desire to understand end-to-end architecture and data flow
• Strong influencing skills across partners and non-direct reports
• Ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders, including operations, creative teams, engineering, legal, and security

At Netflix, we offer a unique culture and environment that allows you to do your best work and grow. Our compensation structure consists of an annual salary, with the option to choose between salary and stock options. The range for this role is $190,000 - $920,000. We also provide comprehensive benefits, including health plans, mental health support, 401(k) retirement plan, stock option program, and more.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams. If you are a motivated and experienced engineering leader looking to make a impact, please apply to this role.

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