Engineering Manager - Developer Enablement Engineering

What you will do

• You will lead a team of software engineers to deliver high-impact results, your responsibilities in this role:
• Align the vision, strategy and roadmap of the Developer Enablement Engineering team with the rest of Engineering Operations and ensure strong partnership with Product Management and Program Management teams.
• Foster a strong accountability culture in the team and help the team deliver the results reliably and in a timely manner to support the needs of critical business stakeholders.
• Act as a credible technical advisor to the team; help the team make thoughtful, informed decisions in ambiguous situations.
• Effectively communicate complex ideas and influence decisions across a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Balance business needs with strong engineering principles, ensure investment in foundational technical work, and incremental improvements to deliver timely results.
• Lead, coach, hire, and develop a team of outstanding engineers, challenge them to bring their best selves to their daily work, and deliver exceptional results in stability, performance, efficiency as well as developer experience.
• Build and nurture an inclusive team culture where every member feels empowered, accepted, and respected.

What we are looking for

• Passion for building and solving complex developer productivity related challenges.
• Experience in building and managing high-performing teams with a focus on inclusion and diversity. Ability to attract and retain the best talent, and ensure that all voices are heard to inform our decisions while fostering a strong culture of accountability, where individuals take ownership of their responsibilities and contribute to the team’s collective success.
• Ability to foster a team culture of open and direct communications, where team members feel empowered to offer constructive and positive feedback and acknowledge achievements and areas for improvement.
• Long-term strategic thinker with a strong platform mindset, and ability to define and articulate product vision and strategy and how they fit into the broader objectives of the organization.
• Ability to prioritize strategically and align the team’s work with larger business goals. Have the courage to pivot based on broader impacts.
• Ability to build and maintain strong partnerships with cross-functional partners and stakeholders with excellent communication and collaboration skills. Capable of influencing the strategic direction of partners and stakeholders.
• Proven track record helping a team deliver timely results on critical priorities against many demands for their time, and partnering with product and engineering management to influence the right areas for investment
• Bring rigor to decision-making and drive down ambiguity with the right mix of collecting data, seeking input, farming for dissent, and making pilot investments to build understanding or confirm direction.
• Experience driving teams to adopt specific KPIs/leading indicators of system health, observing and tuning the systems to prevent predictable outages.

What to Expect From Us

• High Impact - your work will touch every engineer at the company and be crucial for the ongoing success of Netflix.
• Stunning Colleagues - you will be working with other excellent people with diverse perspectives, who value collaboration, working to excel as the “dream team”. 
• Energizing Challenges - there is a wealth of opportunity when working on complex technical projects and our culture both enables and encourages you to rise to the challenges.
• Feedback – you will constantly have opportunities for growth because meaningful positive and constructive feedback is part of everyday life at Netflix.