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[Remote] Engineering Manager

Remote Full-time Now Hiring

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Netflix is an entertainment technology company seeking an experienced Software Engineering Leader to lead and grow a team within its Cloud Network Engineering organization. The role oversees development of network observability tooling, DNS management control-plane capabilities, and host network interface software while fostering cross-functional partnerships and improving scalable, reliable engineering practices.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of stunning software engineers developing network observability, DNS control plane, and network interface software
  • Hire, oversee, and grow software developers
  • 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, guiding the development of a visibility platform that engineering teams use to understand, debug, and secure their traffic
  • Improve the distributed system control plane that enables safe DNS management at Netflix

Skills

  • A product-focused leader who understands what customers want and has a passion for building high-scale critical platforms
  • Leadership that treats the 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, consistently thinks 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
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
  • We use AWS; experience with building/consuming the networking stack of a public cloud is a plus
  • Solid understanding of Layer3/Layer4 networking, and network security is a plus

Benefits

  • You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options.
  • Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans.
  • Mental Health support
  • A 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match
  • Stock Option Program
  • Disability Programs
  • Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Family-forming benefits
  • Life and Serious Injury Benefits
  • Paid leave of absence programs
  • Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off.

Company Overview

  • Netflix is an online streaming platform that enables users to watch TV shows and movies. It was founded in 1997, and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.netflix.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Netflix has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 152 in 2026, 310 in 2025, 309 in 2024, 191 in 2023, 261 in 2022, 268 in 2021, 225 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.