Netflix is a global leader in entertainment, serving over 300 million subscribers worldwide. They are seeking an experienced Software Engineering Leader to manage a team within the Cloud Network Engineering organization, responsible for delivering secure and reliable cloud networking solutions. The role involves leading engineering efforts to enhance network scalability and security across Netflix's cloud infrastructure.
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
- 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
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with building/consuming the networking stack of a public cloud