Engineering Manager - Content Engineering
Warsaw, Poland
Streaming – Content Engineering Core /
Pipeline /
On-site
Netflix is the world's leading streaming entertainment service with over 230 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries, and feature films 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.
Content Engineering builds the products and services used by our internal and external creative partners producing and managing our global content. With an increasing slate of original content being produced every year, our products manage billions of dollars worth of content-spend.
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to deliver high-impact results and revolutionize the content creation space. You will hire and grow a team of software engineers in Warsaw to develop and implement technology that enables the efficient ingestion and delivery of media assets. To do this, you will need to partner with engineering teams across Netflix as well as work closely with X-functional partners (Production Managers, Product Managers, Designers), across geographies and timezones.
This role is based in Warsaw and our teams work in a hybrid-working model.
What You Will Do:
- Demonstrate consistent curiosity in the studio media management workflows and contribute towards the broader Studio strategy and goals.
- Position yourself as a thought leader with stakeholders and build trusting partnerships
- Act as a credible technical advisor to the team
- Understand the tradeoffs and balance between critical business needs and strong engineering principles
- Make thoughtful decisions in complex, ambiguous situations
- Informed risk-taking - make strategic bets while driving tactical execution
- Foster an inclusive, high-performing environment where every member feels respected, reflected, and expected
- Hold a high bar in hiring and retention, and coach, mentor, and grow a diverse group of software engineers
- Be a strong culture role model, leading by example in alignment with our principles of Inclusion, Freedom & Responsibility, Informed Captaincy, and Context Not Control
Qualifications:
- At least 5 years experience in building and leading diverse software engineering teams
- Experience in maximizing the team’s impact while supporting the growth aspirations of employees
- Business applications development experience with keeping high standards
- Tenacity and the ability to balance competing priorities across multiple cross-functional stakeholders and programs
- Strong understanding of distributed media systems and architecture
- A strong product mindset
- Experience in leading large complex projects across many disparate, independent engineering teams through the influence and joy of adoption
- Ability to deliver and receive candid feedback in a variety of situations
- Balancing between giving context vs. driving direction
- A track record of growing senior engineers deep into their careers to increase their impact
- A passion for communication - with the team, stakeholders, partners, and leadership, particularly across global borders
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, ethnicity, religion, color, place of birth, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, military service status, or disability status.
