Technical Program Manager (L6) - Developer Portal

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.

Netflix

Netflix is the world's leading streaming entertainment service, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries. Members enjoy TV series, documentaries, and feature films in more than 30 different languages. They can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on any internet-connected screen. At Netflix, we want to entertain the world and are always looking to help members find their next favorite story.

Our story

Platform Engineering is focused on providing technical products, tools, and services that enable Netflix to scale and innovate. We want to empower Netflix engineers to focus on building innovative experiences for our members and creators around the world. We deploy hundreds of services on thousands of instances across multiple regions and millions of client devices. Platform Engineering Teams focus on increasing agility, efficiency, and reliability across our compute, networking, productivity, and data products.

Within Platform Engineering, the Productivity Engineering organization helps engineers build, test, deploy, and operate software with speed and confidence by providing internal platforms and tools that streamline development workflows, ensure software hygiene, and surface actionable insights across the software lifecycle. This includes improving developer interactions across multiple tools and surfaces, reducing context switching, and driving consistency across platforms like Console (Developer Portal) and our SW Command Center. These efforts span UI/UX, backend services such as Observability, and have a significant impact on software quality and engineering velocity.

This role will drive high-impact cross-functional programs focused on unifying the developer experience and enhancing visibility into the software lifecycle. This work will extend across key developer touchpoints, including our Developer Platform to enable more cohesive workflows and confident ownership. They will also drive alignment across divergent ownership models and contribute to evolving a consistent, metadata-rich single entity ownership model across software and data. 

A successful candidate will have experience working with internal platforms, developer tooling, or productivity-focused infrastructure. They will have led cross-functional efforts with design, product, and engineering teams, and will be able to bring structure to evolving problem spaces. They will be comfortable with ambiguity, grounded in systems thinking, and excited to drive improvements that touch thousands of developers across Netflix.

If you’re looking for a technical and dynamic opportunity that will shape how engineering happens at Netflix, we’d love to talk to you.

What You Will Do

• Own and drive multiple cross-functional programs, in collaboration with technical teams (including product, engineering, UI/UX, etc), that focus on building a scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure foundation.

• Deliver a unified developer experience by building cohesive workflows in our developer portal.

• Translate strategic goals into executable roadmaps and drive execution, aligning engineers, PMs, and practitioners across multiple orgs and domains.

• Craft and drive engagement with partners, work to decompose requirements into technical execution plans with multiple engineering teams, track progress towards goals, and report status to product, customers, and technical leadership.

• Champion breaking out OKRs into measurable milestones while proactively managing risks, blockers, and delays.

• Manage cross-functional dependencies, risks, and changes effectively by optimizing scope, schedule, and resources accordingly.

What We Are Looking For

Functional Skills 

• Thrive in ambiguity and bring structure to complex, interconnected technical domains.

• Passionate about improving the day-to-day experience of software engineers.

• Understand the challenges of building platforms that serve internal developers.

• Ability to drive platform convergence and influence product decisions through partnership and clarity.

• Intent to work with urgency, humility, and accountability, building trust across product and engineering.
   

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience leading technical programs in infrastructure, developer platforms, or internal tools.

• Experience managing programs across UI/UX, backend, and infrastructure teams.

• Familiarity with software delivery workflows (CI/CD, canary deployments, alerting, metrics).

• Self-starter who enjoys tackling 0 to 1 problem spaces and quickly bringing organization and direction.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including clear articulation of business impact and technical constraints tailored to the audience.

• Hands-on approach. Not afraid to pull data, dive into logs, or whiteboard solution paths.

Additive Qualifications

• Experience delivering unified or federated product experiences across multiple developer platforms or tools.

• Familiarity with developer productivity challenges and opportunities in large organizations.

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A few more things about us:

As a team, we come from many different backgrounds and countries. Our fields of education range from the humanities to engineering to computer science, and we strive to give people the opportunity to wear different hats, should they choose to. We strongly believe this diversity and agility have helped us build an inclusive and empathetic environment, and we are looking forward to adding your perspective to the mix!

Generally, 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 $100,000 - $720,000.

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 details 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.

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