Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Netflix is a leading entertainment company focused on pushing the boundaries of storytelling and technology. They are seeking an experienced Software Engineering Leader to manage a team responsible for delivering secure and reliable cloud networking solutions that enhance Netflix's infrastructure and scalability.
Responsibilities
- Own the Tier 0 network governance layer that determines how every Netflix workload connects, from placement and addressing through security group policy and firewall enforcement
- Build, scale, and mentor a cohesive team of amazing engineers
- Form strong cross-functional partnerships driven by trust to achieve alignment with many engineering teams and ensure our solutions meet their needs, while maintaining our focus on agility, scalability, reliability, and efficiency
- Build Netflix's network observability capability, evolving eBPF-based flow capture and IP topology into a full L3/L4 visibility platform that engineering teams use to understand, debug, and secure their traffic
- Drive the transition from per-service network configuration to opinionated, policy-driven defaults, making the secure path the easy path for thousands of microservices without requiring each team to be a networking expert
Skills
- A product-focused leader who understands what customers want and has a passion for building critical infrastructure platforms
- Leadership that treats Engineering process as a product, identifies friction in how the team builds, ships, and fixes software
- Strong software development focus with past work abstracting away complexity and guiding teams to deliver simple, effective solutions to customers
- Outcome-focused mindset and able to think from first principles
- Experience building and operating complex distributed systems at scale. We use AWS, experience with building/consuming the networking stack of a public cloud is a plus
- Shipping through organizational complexity. Proactively resolves cross-team dependencies, migration sequencing, competing priorities. Builds consensus and influences peer teams to move initiatives forward
- Solid understanding of Layer3/Layer4 networking, and network security is a plus
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
Benefits
- 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
- Life and Serious Injury Benefits
- 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
Company Overview
Netflix is an online streaming platform that enables users to watch TV shows and movies. It was founded in 1997, and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.netflix.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Netflix has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 65 in 2026, 310 in 2025, 309 in 2024, 191 in 2023, 261 in 2022, 268 in 2021, 225 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.