Engineering Manager - Member Experience API Platform
Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.
The Member Experience API Platform Team builds high-throughput, low-latency API layer that serves key Netflix Member Experience Pages, such as the Homepage and Search, delivering real-time responses to UI clients. Our mission is to provide stable, scalable, and resilient abstractions that empower device teams and dozens of backend domains to deliver seamless, and cohesive experiences to our members.
We are seeking an engineering leader to guide our API Platform team in evolving our architecture, scaling our services, and driving Netflix’s member experience innovation. This leader will partner closely with client engineering, product, backend domains, and platform teams to ensure our APIs remain robust, extensible, and aligned with the needs of Netflix’s global member base.
In this role, you will:
Lead a team of talented engineers building and evolving the core API platform that powers all member discovery and interaction experiences.
Drive the architecture, design, and execution of scalable, highly available API services and platform foundations.
Develop a strategic roadmap for API platform evolution, focusing on extensibility, domain isolation, schema lifecycle management, and high business impact.
Define and track success metrics for platform adoption, migration from legacy systems, and operational excellence.
Communicate progress and technical context effectively to stakeholders, partners, and senior leadership.
Balance platform modernization with legacy support, ensuring smooth transitions and minimal disruption.
Foster a culture of collaboration, inclusion, and technical excellence within the team.
Hire, mentor, and grow a diverse, high-performing engineering team.
What we are looking for in you:
2–4 years of experience leading backend or platform engineering teams, preferably in distributed systems or API infrastructure.
Deep technical acumen in designing, building, and operating high-traffic, resilient API platforms.
Proven ability to drive platform architecture and influence technical direction in a cross-functional environment.
Experience with schema-driven API development (e.g., GraphQL, DGS), platform extensibility, and service migration strategies.
Passion for enabling product and client teams through robust, scalable platform abstractions.
Track record of hiring, mentoring, and growing diverse engineering teams.
Excellence in communicating technical context and driving alignment among engineers, stakeholders, and leadership.
Strategic thinker able to connect platform evolution to business and product needs, navigating competing priorities.
Leadership style that values feedback, empowers others, and fosters innovation without micromanagement.
BS in Computer Science/Engineering or a related discipline.
We seek to grow inclusive and diverse teams that will enhance our perspectives, skill sets, and behaviors. We highly encourage you to apply if your background will complement us, even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $190,000 - $920,000.
Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more detail about our Benefits here.
Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.
Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.
We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity 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.
Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.
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Engineering Manager - Member Experience API Platform
Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.
The Member Experience API Platform Team builds high-throughput, low-latency API layer that serves key Netflix Member Experience Pages, such as the Homepage and Search, delivering real-time responses to UI clients. Our mission is to provide stable, scalable, and resilient abstractions that empower device teams and dozens of backend domains to deliver seamless, and cohesive experiences to our members.
We are seeking an engineering leader to guide our API Platform team in evolving our architecture, scaling our services, and driving Netflix’s member experience innovation. This leader will partner closely with client engineering, product, backend domains, and platform teams to ensure our APIs remain robust, extensible, and aligned with the needs of Netflix’s global member base.
In this role, you will:
Lead a team of talented engineers building and evolving the core API platform that powers all member discovery and interaction experiences.
Drive the architecture, design, and execution of scalable, highly available API services and platform foundations.
Develop a strategic roadmap for API platform evolution, focusing on extensibility, domain isolation, schema lifecycle management, and high business impact.
Define and track success metrics for platform adoption, migration from legacy systems, and operational excellence.
Communicate progress and technical context effectively to stakeholders, partners, and senior leadership.
Balance platform modernization with legacy support, ensuring smooth transitions and minimal disruption.
Foster a culture of collaboration, inclusion, and technical excellence within the team.
Hire, mentor, and grow a diverse, high-performing engineering team.
What we are looking for in you:
2–4 years of experience leading backend or platform engineering teams, preferably in distributed systems or API infrastructure.
Deep technical acumen in designing, building, and operating high-traffic, resilient API platforms.
Proven ability to drive platform architecture and influence technical direction in a cross-functional environment.
Experience with schema-driven API development (e.g., GraphQL, DGS), platform extensibility, and service migration strategies.
Passion for enabling product and client teams through robust, scalable platform abstractions.
Track record of hiring, mentoring, and growing diverse engineering teams.
Excellence in communicating technical context and driving alignment among engineers, stakeholders, and leadership.
Strategic thinker able to connect platform evolution to business and product needs, navigating competing priorities.
Leadership style that values feedback, empowers others, and fosters innovation without micromanagement.
BS in Computer Science/Engineering or a related discipline.
We seek to grow inclusive and diverse teams that will enhance our perspectives, skill sets, and behaviors. We highly encourage you to apply if your background will complement us, even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $190,000 - $920,000.
Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more detail about our Benefits here.
Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.
Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.
We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity 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.
Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.