Engineering Manager - Consumer Authorization Systems
$436,000–$710,000 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Provide technical vision and strategy for building platforms to scale to the next set of million members. Build strong relationships across product management, engineering, data science, and security partners to balance immediate stakeholder needs against longer-term vision. Lead a team of backend engineers to execute on a shared vision between security, engineering, and product partners while growing the team through coaching and honest feedback. This Engineering Manager role sits within the Identity Engineering organization, specifically the Consumer Authorization team, which builds access policy platforms for Netflix's streaming, Ads, and Games products. The position requires deep expertise in distributed systems architectures and authorization technologies like ABAC and RBAC to drive innovation in high-scale, low-latency applications.
Required Qualifications
- inclusive leader
- proven track record of building and leading high-performing diverse teams
- extensive background and strong technical expertise working in backend infrastructure and platforms
- understand how to build for scale and business impact
- proven track record of scaling a platform from 1 to multiple
- inherently curious
- enjoy leading through challenges with building large-scale, low-latency applications
- enabling your team to work on hard problems with new tech
- creating levers for making a big impact and delighting your stakeholders
- some domain experience in authorization technologies such as ABAC, RBAC, policy engines or adjacencies
- enjoy leading through challenges with building high scale, low latency applications
- proactive, effective communicator
- great judgment
- bias towards action
- role model for integrity, transparency, and courage
- high tolerance for ambiguity and fast-changing context
- Knowledge of distributed systems architectures and infrastructure
- An engineering mindset that stays technically curious and engaged in innovation and encourages learning in the team
- Thoughtful leadership with experience in hiring, coaching and retaining strong engineering talent with various needs for personal and professional growth
- Strong partner for product management and engineering leaders
- equally passionate about working with engineering and non-engineering stakeholders
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