Senior Manager, Content Promotion & Distribution Data Engineering

Netflix

Actively hiring
Remote (Los Angeles, US) Posted 49 days ago $525,000–$950,000 / year
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TL;DR

Join the Content Promotion & Distribution Data Engineering team as a seasoned leader managing a diverse group of data and ML engineers to build robust, scalable data foundations for Netflix’s global content promotion efforts. Your daily responsibilities include hiring and developing a talented team, owning end-to-end data pipelines that support analytics, experimentation, and machine learning, and partnering with cross-functional teams to drive impactful data products. Key skills required are deep expertise in traditional data engineering practices like ETL/ELT, warehousing, and multi-modal media processing, alongside experience leading innovative projects in complex domains involving multimodal data marketing and promotion. Familiarity with Big Data technologies such as Spark, S3, and modern data warehouses is essential, along with a commitment to fostering an inclusive team environment that values psychological safety and diverse perspectives.

Skills

Spark AWS S3 Docker Kubernetes Terraform Python PostgreSQL CI/CD BigQuery Snowflake Hadoop Airflow Prometheus Grafana GitLab Jenkins Google Cloud Platform Azure Data Factory Apache Kafka Redis MongoDB MySQL Amazon Redshift Databricks TensorFlow PyTorch

What you'll do

  • Hire, lead, and develop a team of Data and ML Engineers with diverse skills.
  • Own end-to-end data foundations for Content Promotion & Distribution, including traditional and multi-modal data pipelines.
  • Partner with cross-functional leaders to ideate, prioritize, and execute high-impact data products and tools.
  • Provide technical vision and strategy for modeling, storing, transforming, and serving both structured and multi-modal data at scale.
  • Balance near-term and long-term needs while setting the technical bar for data engineering craft in this space.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of experience leading data engineering teams with diverse skill sets
  • Proven track record in complex business domains involving multimodal media data and ML/AI products
  • Expertise in both analytics-focused and ML-focused data engineering practices
  • Strong communication skills to drive alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Experience managing shared resources, prioritizing work for multiple stakeholder groups
  • Deep technical knowledge in large-scale multi-modal asset processing pipelines and data warehousing

Market check

Salary context

This $525,000–$950,000 range sits above 100% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$155,700–$236,400

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$164,600–$230,725

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 239 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

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 91 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $388,000–$610,000 across 87 roles with salary data.

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