Engineering Manager, Data Platform Orchestration

Netflix

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Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Los Gatos, CA
Salary
$436,000–$791,000 / yr
Posted
42 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $614k
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About Netflix

Netflix is the world''s leading streaming entertainment service, offering a vast library of TV series, films, documentaries, and original content to subscribers in over 190 countries. Industry: Streaming Entertainment & Media

Netflix currently has 28 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $440,000–$750,000 across 27 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Engineering Manager, Data Platform Orchestration

The Engineering Manager, Data Platform Orchestration joins the Analytics Platform and Experience team to build and operate a reliable, cost-efficient orchestration platform for large-scale data and machine learning workflows. This leader will manage a geographically distributed engineering team, fostering growth while ensuring high availability and performance for critical systems like Maestro, an in-house workflow-as-a-service. Responsibilities include defining technical strategy, managing debt, and partnering across teams to deliver scalable analytics capabilities. The role involves developing ETL frameworks for incremental processing and implementing automated error remediation using GenAI tools like Pensive and Nightingale. Ideal candidates possess experience with high-scale platform systems and may have familiarity with technologies such as Spark, Trino/Presto, Snowflake, BigQuery, RedShift, Druid, or LanceDB. The work addresses the complex challenge of managing data lifecycle, metadata, and security for massive datasets within a warehouse environment.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in California?

Median $290250 from 64 postings across 19 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead a geographically distributed team of engineers to deliver high-scale, reliable platform systems.
  • Manage the development and operation of Maestro, a large-scale workflow-as-a-service orchestration system.
  • Oversee the infrastructure for data processing, including ETL frameworks, metadata management, and table formats like Iceberg.
  • Drive technical strategy and trade-offs to ensure high availability and performance for critical workloads.
  • Develop automated error classification and GenAI-powered remediation tools to improve operational efficiency.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to align engineering goals and meet the needs of data practitioners.
  • Balance technical debt reduction with the delivery of new features and incremental improvements.
  • Foster an inclusive environment to attract, develop, and retain top engineering talent.

What we're looking for

  • Experience as an engineering leader managing geographically distributed teams.
  • Ability to facilitate technical strategy trade-offs while understanding high-level product goals.
  • Experience building and running reliable platform systems for high-scale, critical workloads.
  • Experience maintaining services with 99.95%+ availability and fast mean-time-to-restore.
  • Proven track record of delivering results on critical priorities amidst competing demands.
  • Experience leading software engineering teams with a focus on inclusion and diversity.
  • Desirable experience with Orchestration, Spark, Trino/Presto, Snowflake, BigQuery, RedShift, Druid, LanceDB, or Big Data Analytics technologies.

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