Engineering Manager - Client Delivery & Observability

Engineering Manager - Client Delivery & Observability

Los Gatos, California, United States of America

At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. Together, we are writing the next episode - pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom and making the unimaginable a reality. We are a dream team obsessed with the uncomfortable excitement of discovering what happens when you merge creativity, intuition and cutting-edge technology. Come be a part of what's next.

The Opportunity:

The Client Delivery & Observability (CDO) team is a newly formed group that owns two connected domains at the heart of Netflix's client engineering: release delivery, the automation platform that safely ships client application updates to Netflix's over 300 million members across TV, TV Connected and mobile devices and real-time observability, the streaming analytics and canary analysis infrastructure that detects regressions before they reach members. Together, these systems ensure that every client release, server canary, and A/B test is both safely delivered and continuously monitored. The observability stack includes a multi-region streaming analytics platform built on Mantis, Kafka, and Druid that processes the full firehose of Netflix client telemetry This is a team that operates at the intersection of large-scale infrastructure engineering, release automation, and applied statistical methods. The system has caught regressions in production within seconds and on the delivery side, the release automation platform orchestrates deployments across all Netflix client surfaces, using A/B-test-based canaries to safely roll out new builds to millions of devices. The team continues to extend these capabilities to support Netflix's expanding live, ads, and gaming businesses.

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead this team through its next phase. You will lead two squads, each with an established tech lead, and your challenge will be to build a unified team identity, set direction across both domains, and rationalize a combined roadmap. The work ahead is compelling and includes scaling the observability platform to support Netflix's expanding live and ads businesses, advancing the canary analysis toolkit, evolving the release automation platform for new client architectures. The team partners deeply with experimentation, streaming infrastructure, client platform, developer productivity, and device reliability groups, making cross-functional leadership a core part of the role.

Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership & Talent Development
• Vision & Execution
• Cross-Functional Partnership
• Operational Excellence

Skills & Characteristics:

• Cross-Domain Leadership
• Context, Not Control
• People Leader
• Data-Driven Mindset
• Distributed Team Leadership
• Strategic Communicator

Preferred Requirements:

• 10+ years of software or data engineering experience
• 5+ years of engineering team management experience
• Domain experience in at least one of: real-time data pipelines, release automation and CI/CD infrastructure, or experimentation platforms
• Demonstrable experience leading efforts to build shared tooling, infrastructure, or platform features that enable other engineering teams to move faster and more reliably
• Experience managing or coordinating multiple sub-teams or squads with distinct charters, and coaching or developing tech leads
• Experience leading distributed or hybrid engineering teams across multiple time zones

Generally, our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $436,000.00 - $710,000.00.

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, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off.

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. 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.