Netflix - Los Gatos, CA

posted 3 months ago

Full-time - Senior
Los Gatos, CA
Broadcasting and Content Providers

About the position

Netflix is seeking a Principal Product Manager for its Cloud Infrastructure - Networking team. This role is crucial in driving the evolution of our networking platform, ensuring it is robust, agile, reliable, efficient, secure, and scalable to meet the ever-evolving needs of the business. The Infrastructure organization serves as the backbone for Netflix's growing scale, enhancing engineering productivity by minimizing time spent on infrastructure management and streamlining developer workflows. This allows engineers to focus on what truly matters: helping Netflix entertain the world. In this pivotal role, you will shape the product vision and strategy across the entire networking stack, from L3 to L7 networking, including networking primitives and edge gateways that process millions of requests per second. Your responsibilities will include managing edge services that handle access control, DDoS mitigations, origin protections, and real-time traffic inspection. You will also ensure a secure and reliable service mesh with intelligent service discovery and traffic management, while dynamically steering traffic to balance latency, availability, and cost. You will design and manage the network, ensuring secure and efficient configuration and placement of elements such as VPCs, load balancers, and DNS. Additionally, you will provide a comprehensive network observability platform for monitoring and troubleshooting network performance. Your mission is to simplify networking for end users and enhance infrastructure agility by driving Network as a Service, significantly shaping the future of networking at Netflix.

Responsibilities

  • Deeply understand customer needs, product analytics, and industry innovation to drive the product vision and strategy for Networking, maximizing business and customer impact.
  • Partner closely with senior management and engineering teams to define and align with stakeholders on vision, strategy, and roadmaps.
  • Develop product roadmaps in partnership with relevant product and engineering teams that execute on product vision and strategy and inform our engineering teams of what problems need to be solved.
  • Foster a metrics-driven environment that encourages quality experimentation and sets high standards for measuring product success.
  • Stay informed about industry advancements, influence their direction, and conduct comprehensive buy vs. build analysis to align with state-of-the-art solutions, encouraging ROI-based decisions.
  • Foster a collaborative environment with Netflix engineers, creating continuous feedback loops to ensure we're solving the right problems and driving maximum impact for Netflix.
  • Exhibit robust problem-solving and decision-making skills, tackling both technical and strategic challenges in innovative ways, and leveraging both data and intuition to make strategic choices in the face of ambiguity and complexity.
  • Ensure thoughtful product evolution that addresses product lifecycle and adoption experience.
  • Help evolve our customer engagement model, communication strategy, and prioritization and planning/roadmapping practices.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience as a Technical Product Manager
  • Demonstrated expertise and passion in networking and developer experience
  • Proven track record of managing & evolving a product portfolio and driving product vision & strategy
  • A healthy blend of deep technical knowledge with customer-focused mindset and empathy
  • Strategic thinker that can connect customer use cases to technology solutions and think holistically about end-to-end experience
  • Ability to manage a portfolio of bigger and smaller bets while balancing short-term goals and long-term vision
  • Comfortable applying a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to define success
  • Leverages product intuition and judgment to solve problems and make decisions without perfect information
  • Insatiable curiosity to learn new domains, keep up with industry innovation, and constantly ask ‘why'
  • Excellent communication skills; timely communication with clear expectations.

Benefits

  • Health Plans
  • Mental Health support
  • 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
  • Flexible time off for full-time salaried employees
  • 35 days annually for paid time off for full-time hourly employees.
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