Engineering Manager, Compute Controlplane and Capacity

Netflix is one of the world’s leading entertainment services, with 283 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.

Netflix has been changing how people watch shows and movies, enabling on-demand access to thousands of movies and TV shows. Recently, Netflix has expanded its entertainment offering to include Live content, like the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson match, the NFL Christmas Games, Beyonce’s halftime show, the SAG Awards ceremony, and more. Bringing stories in real time to so many viewers around the world is a hard challenge, demanding exceptional levels of scaling, reliability, stability, and operational excellence across our Cloud Platform stack.

We are looking for an experienced leader with a passion for tackling the complex challenges to drive core components of Netflix’s Cloud Compute Infrastructure. The Compute Controlplane and Capacity owns the services that are essential to ensuring there is always capacity be it EC2 instances or Containers to meet every Netflix need, including things like serving the largest internet Live stream in history. In addition, your team will drive improved scheduling strategies for Container and Instance placement pulling on latest industry research and driving ever greater efficiencies from Netflix Cloud Infrastructure.

You would lead and grow a team of amazing engineers to evolve and implement a cohesive Compute strategy that is critical for our growing business lines while partnering with multiple teams across Netflix.

What You will do

• Own Netflix’s Compute Controlplane launching millions of containers on our Titus multi-tenant container platform evolving its performance, efficiency and reach.
• Drive evolution of the systems and tooling used to manage hundreds of millions of dollars annually of Compute capacity at Netflix.
• Build, scale, and mentor a cohesive team of amazing engineers.
• Drive engineering excellence and set a high bar for operational rigor within the team.
• Form strong cross-functional partnerships to achieve alignment with many engineering teams, ensuring our solutions meet their needs while maintaining our focus on scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
• Balance competing priorities across multiple cross-functional stakeholders and programs.
• Drive large initiatives to completion in tandem with partner and peer organizations.

What Sets You Apart

• A self-motivated exceptional people leader with experience building and leading high-performing teams.
• Strong understanding of cloud architectures and distributed systems with operating critical Tier0 services at scale.
• Preferred deep expertise in cloud capacity concepts – supply and demand, fleetwide scaling, and traffic management techniques.
• Strategic thinker with an ability to strike the right balance between short-term goals and longer-term vision.
• Customer obsession and a product mindset to understand business and customer requirements and outcomes.
• Proven track record of timely execution with upholding engineering excellence while building trust with partners/customers.
• Proactively give and receive feedback with a growth mindset; adept at active listening.
• Perseverance and the ability to balance competing priorities across multiple cross-functional stakeholders and programs.