Engineering Manager, Cloud Network Engineering

Netflix is a leading entertainment company that aims to push the boundaries of storytelling through innovative technology. They are seeking an experienced Software Engineering Leader to lead and grow a team responsible for delivering secure and reliable cloud networking solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Own the Tier 0 network governance layer that determines how every Netflix workload connects, from placement and addressing through security group policy and firewall enforcement
• Build, scale, and mentor a cohesive team of amazing engineers
• Form strong cross-functional partnerships driven by trust to achieve alignment with many engineering teams and ensure our solutions meet their needs, while maintaining our focus on agility, scalability, reliability, and efficiency
• Build Netflix's network observability capability, evolving eBPF-based flow capture and IP topology into a full L3/L4 visibility platform that engineering teams use to understand, debug, and secure their traffic
• Drive the transition from per-service network configuration to opinionated, policy-driven defaults, making the secure path the easy path for thousands of microservices without requiring each team to be a networking expert

Requirements:

• A product-focused leader who understands what customers want and has a passion for building critical infrastructure platforms
• Leadership that treats Engineering process as a product, identifies friction in how the team builds, ships, and fixes software
• Strong software development focus with past work abstracting away complexity and guiding teams to deliver simple, effective solutions to customers
• Outcome-focused mindset and able to think from first principles
• Experience building and operating complex distributed systems at scale. We use AWS, experience with building/consuming the networking stack of a public cloud is a plus
• Shipping through organizational complexity. Proactively resolves cross-team dependencies, migration sequencing, competing priorities. Builds consensus and influences peer teams to move initiatives forward
• Solid understanding of Layer3/Layer4 networking, and network security is a plus
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills