Engineering Manager, Cloud Games Infrastructure

Netflix is the world's leading streaming entertainment service, with almost 270 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries, and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages. Now, Netflix aims to add the world’s best games to the same subscription!
Bring your passion for games and the joy of enabling developers to create the best games to the Netflix membership. We are seeking a highly motivated and passionate individual to lead a software development team that handles work critical to the Open Connect Gaming Appliance. This team coordinates with other groups to integrate new features in a timely and predictable way; handles the appliance software release process (including CI/CD, release automation, and testing); fixes bugs that are found in testing or production; and, interfaces with other groups to ensure their tools and pipelines support the game appliance.We provide the freedom to execute, learn, and pivot and the responsibility to be self-directed, collaborative, and insightful. This gives you the freedom to do your best work and contribute directly to the business's success.
You will be successful in this role if you:Are passionate about leading engineering teams with senior software developersEnjoy leading high-functioning teams that produce high-quality software with rapid development cyclesAre passionate about systems engineeringAre a quick learner excited about learning new technologies, and unfazed by ambiguity and new challengesThrive in an environment with minimal guidance given important contextEnjoy collaborating with partners across functional teams and have excellent communication skillsAre comfortable leading a team by empowering individuals with knowledge and freeing them to self-manage their work to do what is best for Netflix with only minimal direction

Qualifications:

• Experience managing/leading successful and highly productive teams
• Experience efficiently building and deploying robust products/features
• Strong track record of cross-functional collaboration
• High comfort with technical complexity and ambiguity, and an interest to pioneer

Nice to have:

• Experience developing and optimizing high-performance, real-time applications such as games or simulations
• Experience with Linux
• Experience with CI/CD systems and SDK 

Does this sound interesting but intimidating? Please don’t self-select; let’s figure it out together. We’d love to talk to you!
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