Engineering Manager - Testing Tools & Infrastructure

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with 283 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games 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.

The Netflix Testing Tools & Infrastructure team is crucial to our Productivity Engineering organization. It serves Netflix engineering by making pre-production testing faster and more reliable. It achieves this by providing centralized platforms for distributed test execution, network tracing and data generation tools, flaky test analytics and management, and more.

Who you are

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager with a demonstrated ability to hire, guide, and grow teams composed of stunning engineers which serve thousands more.

Our ideal candidate is passionate about developer productivity, and thrives on the satisfaction of empowering thousands of Netflix engineers worldwide to comprehensively and quickly test their software. They are excited to leverage their experience building and maintaining automated testing and resilience platforms to provide long-term benefits.

This role is based in Warsaw and our teams work in a hybrid-working model.

What You Will Do:

• Deeply understand Netflix’s long-term plans around testing at strategic and tactical levels

• Clearly and concisely communicate with internal and external partners

• Drive consensus across multiple distributed engineering and product teams when necessary

• Approach problems with a product and customer-first mindset

• Leverage your background in software engineering to clearly articulate technical tradeoffs

• Leverage your experience in leadership to delegate technical tasks and empower your team

• Leverage your knowledge of automated testing to act as an informed leader and creative problem solver

Qualifications:

• Extensive experience in building and managing high-performing teams 

• Strong understanding of distributed systems and architecture

• Deep empathy and connection for other engineering teams and their business goals

• Proven experience building and leading exceptional software engineering teams, that work with stakeholders and engineers across geographies and timezones

• Tenacity and the ability to balance competing priorities across multiple cross-functional stakeholders and programs

• Passion and curiosity to learn and contribute towards the software reliability strategy and goals across Netflix.

• Deep empathy and connection for stakeholders and their business goals

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

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.

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We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.