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Netflix · 20 hours ago

Engineering Manager - Games Social Communicate

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

$436K/yr - $710K/yr

Netflix is a leading entertainment company that is pushing the boundaries of storytelling and gaming. They are seeking an experienced engineering manager to lead the Games Social - Communicate team, focusing on enhancing player communication for Netflix Games.

Digital EntertainmentMedia and EntertainmentTVVideo Streaming

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Lead and grow a team of backend and frontend engineers building and operating the experiences that power communication across Netflix Games (voice, text, reactions, sharing, notifications, and more)

Own the technical direction for Social Communicate:

Partner with senior ICs to define architecture and long-term bets for real-time, reliable, and safe player communication

Make thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, reliability, and complexity in a rapidly evolving product space

Empower, challenge, and coach team members to grow their impact as technical leaders

Shape and drive the roadmap in partnership with product and other stakeholders

Bring structure to ambiguous problem spaces and help the team navigate changing priorities and constraints while maintaining focus and momentum

Partner with game teams, platform teams, security, trust & safety, and others to design solutions that work across a diverse portfolio of games and use cases

Communicate clearly and frequently, both in writing and in person, to align on goals, tradeoffs, and outcomes

Foster an inclusive, high-trust team culture where people of all backgrounds and identities can do their best work, feel safe taking risks, and have fun building together

Exemplify the Netflix culture by understanding, advocating, and demonstrating its values

Qualification

Engineering managementGames industry experienceBackend systemsConsumer-facing productsReal-time communicationPeople-centric leadershipInclusive team cultureCross-functional collaborationCommunication

Required

You are an experienced engineering manager who has led teams building and operating consumer-facing products

You think deeply about reliability, latency, safety, and user experience for large, diverse audiences

You have meaningful experience in the games industry, which could look like, for example: Building or operating games (mobile, console, PC, or cross-platform), Working on a gaming platform or services, or Contributing to other game-adjacent products that serve players, creators, or game developers

Experience with backend and distributed systems (real-time systems, messaging, event-driven architectures, or similar) is a strong plus

You have a strong sense of ownership and are proactive about identifying problems, driving clarity, and moving work forward, while bringing others along

You are comfortable operating in highly ambiguous and fast-changing environments, and you help bring just enough structure for others to move effectively

You are people-centric: you care deeply about helping others grow, creating psychological safety, and building a healthy, high-performing, and inclusive team

You are great at building trusting relationships with cross-functional partners and collaborating across org boundaries

You proactively give and receive feedback, and you are willing to have hard conversations in service of the team and the work

You build informed opinions and can advocate for them effectively, while staying open to being wrong and changing course with new information

You are excited about the games and social space, and motivated by the challenge of building real-time, player-facing communication systems

Lead and grow a team of backend and frontend engineers building and operating the experiences that power communication across Netflix Games (voice, text, reactions, sharing, notifications, and more)

Own the technical direction for Social Communicate: Partner with senior ICs to define architecture and long-term bets for real-time, reliable, and safe player communication