Director, Cloud Gaming Infrastructure

Netflix
Panama
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 737,000 - 1,430,000 annuallyFunction: Executive & General ManagementSkills: ["Communication","Cross-functional partnership","Innovation","Leadership","High ownership"]

Lead Netflix’s cloud gaming infrastructure, owning the strategy, architecture, and roadmap across the Game OS, cloud gaming software stack, telemetry, control plane, and transport. Build and grow the engineering organization delivering reliable, low-latency gameplay at massive concurrent scale, partnering with hardware, OS, encoding, capacity planning, and SRE/Ops. Drive technically and economically viable platform innovation, and translate member-growth and unit-economics goals into infrastructure priorities.

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Netflix
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Director, Cloud Gaming Infrastructure

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Job Summary

Lead Netflix’s cloud gaming infrastructure, owning the strategy, architecture, and roadmap across the Game OS, cloud gaming software stack, telemetry, control plane, and transport. Build and grow the engineering organization delivering reliable, low-latency gameplay at massive concurrent scale, partnering with hardware, OS, encoding, capacity planning, and SRE/Ops. Drive technically and economically viable platform innovation, and translate member-growth and unit-economics goals into infrastructure priorities.
Location: Panama
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Executive & General Management
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the strategy, architecture, and roadmap for cloud gaming infrastructure across Game OS, software stack, telemetry, control plane, and transport.
  • •Lead and grow the engineering organization responsible for building and operating the infrastructure, including technical leadership and IC hiring.
  • •Partner with hardware, OS, encoding, capacity planning, and SRE/Ops to deliver an end-to-end, reliable platform.
  • •Drive technical and economic innovation to make cloud gaming viable at scale in an emerging domain.
  • •Serve as the primary technical bridge between Infrastructure, Games Platform, and Games Studio, and report infrastructure health and risks to senior leadership.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 737,000 - 1,430,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health Insurance401kEquityDisabilityHsaPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Proven track record leading large-scale distributed systems engineering teams across software, hardware, and network/transport layers.
  • •Deep technical expertise in cloud infrastructure at scale, real-time/low-latency media delivery, and/or control planes.
  • •Experience owning infrastructure with significant capital investment and being accountable for economics, not just uptime.
  • •Ability to operate in ambiguous, emerging domains and make sound technical bets under uncertainty.
  • •Experience managing and developing engineering managers and senior ICs.
Experience:Cloud gamingGame streamingReal-time media
Skills:CommunicationCross-functional partnershipInnovationLeadershipHigh ownership
Tech Stack:Cloud infrastructureReal-time/low-latency media deliveryControl planesTelemetryTransportWebRTCCDNEdge infrastructure

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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