Engineering Manager, Platform Systems — AIMS Engineering
Core
Senior engineering leader owning the long-term technical strategy, roadmap, and organizational execution for Platform Systems supporting Netflix's AI recommendation and search infrastructure.
Role type
Senior IC engineering manager (platform systems)
Builds
Distributed systems, observability, evaluation, and tooling subsystems for next-generation AI/ML workflows
Domain
Streaming, AI/ML infrastructure, distributed systems
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Distributed systems architecture, ML infrastructure at scale, team leadership, system reliability, cost efficiency, developer productivity, technical strategy, organizational change management
Preferred skills
Large-scale infrastructure leadership, recommendation/ranking systems, generative AI, end-to-end ML lifecycle
Technologies
Kubernetes, Python, Go, ML frameworks, cloud infrastructure
Responsibilities
Define and own the long term technical strategy for Platform Systems, covering reliability, scalability, capacity management, cost efficiency, the subsystems that support next generation AI workflows, and AI stack modernization, and translate it into a roadmap the team and org can execute against. Set the engineering excellence standard for AIMS by owning observability, reliability practices, on call hygiene, and engineering norms that raise the bar across the org. Own the subsystems for observability, evaluation, and tooling that Netflix's next generation ML architecture depends on. Hire, develop, and retain a team of engineers across a range of seniority levels; create an environment where strong technical contributors grow into senior leaders. Partner at the director level across AIMS and infrastructure teams, representing Platform Systems in strategic planning and advocating for investments with compounding impact across the org. Guide the AI stack modernization effort, establishing the migration path and alignment with partner teams across functions, as one part of the broader technical roadmap.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
