Engineering Manager, Metadata Distribution Engineering

Job Description

As part of the Content Engineering team, Metadata Distribution provides the infrastructure to safely and quickly verify, compute, package, and distribute the extensive catalog library, structure, and liveness that drives what you see and play when you use the Netflix product. This information plays a crucial role in shaping the user experience on Netflix, influencing everything from the recommendations you receive, to the way you experience content and even how the content is played back.

• Coach a team of highly driven back‑end focused senior engineers, providing them with robust career development opportunities.
• Establish strong partnerships with upstream teams to better model new entities in the ecosystem and any new metadata needs.
• Establish partnerships with downstream engineering to understand controls and distribution needs in service of supporting new consumer product behaviors.
• Drive architectures and decisions for technology innovation.
• Act as the product manager for some services, responsible for launching tiles on the Netflix product.
• Anticipate how new company initiatives will affect the movement of Title data and determine the most effective ways to evolve existing systems.
• Understand the pros and cons of various options across different technology layers of the flow.
• Represent the Content Engineering team in cross‑functional forums.
• Challenge designs and propose solutions for highly scalable distributed systems while minimizing technology costs and troubleshooting.

• Prior expertise in all aspects of the data lifecycle such as modeling, movement, and distribution in highly scalable and low latency environments for core company data.
• Experience as an Engineering Manager is required.
• Experience leading teams working on highly scalable mission‑critical distributed systems.
• Systems thinker with a strong desire to understand the entire end‑to‑end architecture and data flow.
• Strong influencing skills across partners and non‑direct reports.
• Able to work with a wide breadth of stakeholders/partners ranging from operations, creative teams, engineering, legal, security, etc.

We are an equal‑opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. 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.