What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering Manager, Page Scale & Performance Team position at Netflix?
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.
The Page Scale & Performance Team builds high-throughput, low-latency backend systems that power Netflix Member Experience Pages, such as the Homepage and Search. Our mission is to optimize system performance for efficiency, enhance scalability and resiliency, and deprecate legacy infrastructure to drive long-term platform evolution.
As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of engineers focused on performance and cost optimizations, resiliency strategies (including fallbacks for uninterrupted member experiences), and scaling operations. You will collaborate with feature engineering, product management, application teams, machine learning, and data teams to align technical strategy with business objectives, driving innovation at scale. We’re looking for a strong technical leader who fosters a collaborative and inclusive environment, mentoring a diverse team of engineers. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker focused on enhancing system architecture to improve scalability, optimize performance, and deliver significant business value, while embodying Netflix’s core values of creativity, curiosity, and excellence.
In this role, you will:
- Lead a team of expert engineers focused on system performance optimization and scaling operations.
- Drive architecture, design, and execution of high-performance product infrastructure.
- Develop a strategic roadmap that balances incremental delivery with high business impact.
- Define success metrics, align migration goals, and drive platform adoption.
- Effectively communicate progress to stakeholders, customers, and senior leadership.
- Balance platform evolution, maintaining existing systems while prioritizing next-generation development.
- Hire, mentor, and grow a diverse, high-performing team, fostering an inclusive team culture.
What we are looking for in you:
- An engineering leader with 3 - 5 years of experience leading backend distributed systems teams.
- Strong technical acumen and ability to act as a technical advisor to the team.
- Experience leading teams responsible for building high-traffic distributed systems.
- Experience building product platforms with a direct impact on the customer experience.
- SRE experience is a plus, particularly in ensuring reliability, scalability, and operational excellence in distributed systems.
- A track record of hiring diverse, highly talented engineers and growing successful, highly impactful teams.
- Excellence in communicating context with the team, stakeholders, partners, and leadership. Ability to drive the team’s roadmap by connecting the dots between your team’s work and business needs, managing expectations, and navigating competing priorities.
- A leadership style that prioritizes giving and receiving feedback, fostering new ideas, and empowering others without micromanagement.
- A BS in Computer Science/Engineering or a related discipline.
At Netflix, we carefully consider a wide range of compensation factors to determine your personal top of the market. We rely on market indicators to determine compensation and consider your specific job, skills, and experience to get it right. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary and will also be dependent on your location. The overall market range for roles in this area of Netflix is typically $190,000 - $920,000.
This market range is based on total compensation (vs. only base salary), which is in line with our compensation philosophy. Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more 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.
Salary : $190,000 - $920,000