Engineering Manager - JVM Ecosystem

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services with over 300 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.

About the job

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services with over 300 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.

This role is to help shape and guide the vision for the JVM Ecosystem Team whose primary goal is to enable a simple performant and seamless development experience for JVM developers at Netflix.

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of JVM usage across Netflix’s microservice fleet optimizing and tailoring the technology to business and developer needs. We are looking for an outstanding leader to help drive the future vision of our JVM ecosystem!

What you will be responsible for managing

• Application build process (Gradle & Nebula)

• Optimizing for JVM performance and configuration needs across the different user profiles

• Build artifact management including Library SDLC

• JDK ownership - vendor relationship LTS upgrades new functionality

• Decisions around default JVM settings for Netflix applications & services

• Insight and tooling for JVM applications

• Outreach and coordination with the OpenJDK community

What skills you should be applying to the role

• Minimum 2 years experience growing a strong and diverse technical team with a fun working culture.

• Helping to build the team identity and vision for a team of strong Senior Engineers promoting IC (Individual Contributor) decision-making while making decisions when needed.

• Able to comfortably navigate the ambiguity of a wide range of customer and partner needs working to create the best products for the business priorities.

• Coaching and development of senior engineers to enable continued growth.

• Picking up different hats as needed for the team including project and product management.

What Skills Would Be Nice To Bring Along

• Deep JVM knowledge.

• Gradle/Nebula experience or other build tool management experience

• Performance engineering experience

• Participation in the Java Community Process (JCP)

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family background skills and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $348800 - $710000.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including 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 and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer 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. See more detail about our Benefits here.

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process please send a request to your recruiting partner.

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.

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity recognizing that diversitybuilds 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.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.