Manager, Data Engineering

Netflix, Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 525,000 - 950,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Plans

401(k) Retirement Plan

35 days annual paid leave

Flexible spending accounts

Job summary

Netflix, Inc. is seeking a Data Engineering Manager to lead teams responsible for building and maintaining data pipelines crucial for promoting and distributing content. The ideal candidate will have over 7 years of leadership experience in data engineering.

This role involves managing cross-functional partnerships, ensuring technical quality, and fostering an inclusive team environment, all while overseeing the end-to-end data foundations necessary for data-driven decision-making.

Qualifications

• 7+ years leading data engineering teams, managing larger teams or shared resources.
• Track record in data engineering in multimodal media.
• Comfortable with analytics and ML focused data engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead Data and ML Engineers team across various skills.
• Own end-to-end data foundations for Content Promotion & Distribution.
• Build data pipelines for ML model training.

Skills

Team leadership in data engineering

Technical quality assurance

Communication

Inclusivity and team development

Experience with big data technologies

Tools

Spark

S3

Modern data warehouses

Job description

Overview

Content Promotion & Distribution Data Engineering team helps enable and inform how we launch, promote, and distribute Netflix content across surfaces, channels, and markets.

The Team

• Owns core analytical data models and pipelines that power reporting, decision‑support, and experimentation.
• Builds and operates multi‑modal data foundations (e.g., text, metadata, image, video, and audio) for ML and GenAI model development and evaluation.
• Partners closely with Content Promotion and Distribution DSE, AI and Data Platform, Content Engineering to build and steward complex data and media pipelines, and set best practices for data storage, access, and usage by analytics engineers, data scientists, and software/ML engineers.

Responsibilities

• Hire, lead, and develop a team of Data and ML Engineers across a heterogeneous skill set (data, software, and ML engineering).
• Own the end‑to‑end data foundations for Content Promotion & Distribution, spanning batch/streaming pipelines, data modeling, data warehousing, data quality, and reliability for analytics and experimentation.
• Build and operate media, text, and rich metadata pipelines that prepare data for training and serving ML and GenAI models.
• Partner with cross‑functional leaders across Content Promotion & Distribution DSE, AI ML Platform, Content Engineering, Studio Algo, and Marketing to ideate, prioritize, and execute on high‑impact data products and tools.
• Steer deeply impactful work on foundational data and media products that support Netflix’s Content Promotion & Distribution, spanning agentic solutions, multimodal media understanding, and generation.
• Provide technical vision and strategy for how we model, store, transform, and serve both structured and multi‑modal data to power analytics, experimentation, and ML at scale.
• Balance near‑term and long‑term needs, from ongoing support of stakeholder quarterly goals to multi‑year investments in infrastructure and “paved paths” for ML/GenAI research and productionization.
• Set and raise the technical bar for data engineering craft in this space, including scalable and interpretable analytical data models, reliable batch and streaming pipelines, and well‑governed, discoverable, and reusable ML feature and media datasets.
• Drive alignment in ambiguity by clarifying trade‑offs, making principled decisions, and bringing diverse partners along a shared roadmap.
• Grow and mentor the team through thoughtful observation, coaching, and courageous, honest feedback; help engineers navigate career development across data, software, and ML engineering paths.
• Build both software and social glue across a wide network of stakeholders—VPs, Directors, Managers, and ICs—enabling decisions that affect hundreds of millions of members and major content and marketing investments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of leading data engineering teams, including managing managers and larger, heterogeneous teams (data, software, ML engineers) or shared‑resource teams.
• Proven track record of leading innovative, influential data engineering work in complex business domains, ideally involving multimodal media data marketing/promotion, content/media, experimentation, and/or ML/AI‑driven products.
• Comfortable owning the technical quality of both analytics‑focused data engineering and ML‑focused data engineering, even if not writing production code every day.
• Crisp communicator who develops strong relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders—technical and non‑technical—and can drive alignment across director/manager‑level partners.
• Deeply invested in creating an inclusive team environment and helping each team member grow; care about psychological safety, diversity of perspectives, and clear, actionable feedback.
• Experience leading a team of shared resources, effectively prioritizing and sequencing work across multiple domains and stakeholder groups.
• Experienced partner for ML Platform, Content Engineering, and Data Platform teams; can advocate from a data engineering perspective and align on shared components and standards.
• Deep technical expertise in one or more aspects of data engineering, such as media or other large‑scale, multi‑modal asset processing pipelines, building ML‑and‑experimentation‑ready data products, data warehousing and dimensional/semantic data modeling, batch and streaming data processing.
• Comfortable with a collection of Big Data and cloud‑based tech (e.g., S3 or similar object storage, Spark or other distributed processing frameworks, modern data warehouses, workflow orchestration).
• Curious, reflective, humble, and impact‑oriented; seeks feedback, learns from mistakes, and can pivot when things aren’t working.
• This role may be for you if you have experience leading data engineering teams for 7+ years, can own analytics and ML data engineering, and can partner with stakeholder groups across the organization.

Benefits

• Compensation: $525,000 – $950,000 annual salary. The role is paid solely in salary; stock options are part of the compensation package.
• Health Plans, Mental Health support, 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family‑forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits.
• Paid leave: 35 days annually for full‑time hourly employees, flexible time off for full‑time salaried employees.
• Other benefits: paid leave of absence programs, paid time off for vacation, holidays, sick leave.

Equal‑Opportunity Employer

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.