Engineering Manager, Platform Systems

Netflix

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Remote

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$523,000–$920,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
13 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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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 165 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Engineering Manager, Platform Systems

Engineering Manager, Platform Systems — AIMS Engineering leads a team within the AI for Member Systems group to manage the infrastructure powering recommendations and personalized experiences. This senior engineering leader owns the technical strategy for Platform Systems, focusing on reliability, scalability, capacity management, and cost efficiency. Day-to-day responsibilities include building and scaling a high-performing team, defining engineering excellence standards for observability and on-call hygiene, and overseeing subsystems for evaluation and tooling. The role requires deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, ML infrastructure, and agentic architectures including memory, trace, eval, and replay pipelines. The position addresses the technical challenge of modernizing the AI stack to support new model paradigms and complex model systems while improving developer productivity and reducing friction across the broader machine learning ecosystem.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in Remote?

Median $239400 from 45 postings across 18 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define and own the long-term technical strategy for Platform Systems including reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
  • Translate technical strategy into an actionable engineering roadmap for the team and the broader organization.
  • Own the subsystems for observability, evaluation, and tooling required for next-generation ML architecture.
  • Establish engineering excellence standards for observability, reliability practices, and on-call hygiene.
  • Hire, develop, and retain a high-performing team of engineers across various seniority levels.
  • Guide the AI stack modernization effort by establishing migration paths and aligning with partner teams.
  • Partner with director-level leadership to represent Platform Systems in strategic planning and investment advocacy.
  • Improve developer productivity by removing friction, automating toil, and investing in internal tools.

What we're looking for

  • Significant experience leading platform or infrastructure engineering organizations operating distributed systems at scale.
  • Strong technical depth in distributed systems architecture, tradeoffs, and design decisions.
  • Hands-on experience building subsystems for advanced agentic architectures, including memory, trace, eval, and replay pipelines.
  • Experience with ML infrastructure at scale, including online and offline model training pipelines.
  • Track record of building high-performing engineering teams and developing senior technical talent.
  • Track record of improving system reliability, reducing infrastructure costs, and accelerating engineering velocity at scale.
  • Experience developing reliable, scalable machine learning platforms for recommendation, ranking, or personalization systems (preferred).
  • Working knowledge of generative AI alongside traditional machine learning approaches (preferred).

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