Engineering Manager, Data Platform Orchestration

Netflix
California
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 436,000 - 791,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Leadership","Cross-functional collaboration","Technical decision-making","Rigor","Inclusion"]

Lead the Orchestration team within APeX, building and operating a reliable, cost-efficient workflow orchestration platform that powers Netflix analytics and machine learning. Partner with product and cross-functional engineering teams to shape strategy, improve stability and performance, and deliver on critical priorities. Manage and grow a geographically distributed team while driving strong engineering rigor across 24x7 operations and high-scale data workflows, including Maestro and related systems.

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Netflix
Netflix
6 months ago

Engineering Manager, Data Platform Orchestration

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Job Summary

Lead the Orchestration team within APeX, building and operating a reliable, cost-efficient workflow orchestration platform that powers Netflix analytics and machine learning. Partner with product and cross-functional engineering teams to shape strategy, improve stability and performance, and deliver on critical priorities. Manage and grow a geographically distributed team while driving strong engineering rigor across 24x7 operations and high-scale data workflows, including Maestro and related systems.
Location: California
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Partner to deliver the vision, strategy, and adoption of current and future orchestration technologies.
  • •Form trusting cross-functional partnerships to align multiple engineering teams and ensure solutions meet stakeholder needs.
  • •Build, scale, and grow an outstanding engineering team; challenge engineers and drive industry-leading results.
  • •Balance investment in foundational work and tech debt while delivering timely incremental improvements.
  • •Drive operational reliability with practices that support 24x7 on-call, high availability, fast response, and low mean-time-to-restore.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 436,000 - 791,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health Insurance401kEquityDisability ProgramsHsaFsaPaid LeaveLife InsuranceFamily Benefits

Key Requirements

  • •Lead software engineering teams and drive performance in stability, performance, and efficiency.
  • •Build and run extremely reliable platform systems for high-scale, critical workloads with 24x7 on-call and strong availability/MTTR practices.
  • •Ability to dive deep on technical strategy trade-offs while also zooming out to shape the product direction.
  • •Bring rigor to decision-making to reduce ambiguity, gather input, and validate direction through pilot investments.
  • •Experience with orchestration and/or big data analytics technologies (desirable): Spark, Trino/Presto, Snowflake, BigQuery, RedShift, Druid, and LanceDB.
Experience:Big dataData analyticsMachine learning
Skills:LeadershipCross-functional collaborationTechnical decision-makingRigorInclusion
Tech Stack:IcebergMaestroWorkflow orchestrationWaaSETLPensiveNightingaleSparkTrinoPrestoSnowflakeBigQueryRedShiftDruidLanceDBGenAI

Company Brief

Netflix
Global subscription streaming service that produces and distributes movies, TV series, and games across multiple devices, operating worldwide with extensive original content and localized offerings.
Industry: Streaming Platforms
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Los Gatos, United States
Founded: 1997
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