Description
Netflix is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead engineers building real-time infrastructure, tooling, and operational systems for live ad insertion across server-side, client-side, and server-guided delivery models. The role owns reliability during 24/7 linear streams and high-stakes live events, defines the technical roadmap for SCTE signal ingestion, ad pod management, manifest stitching, slate handling, and ad decisioning, partners with broadcast and advertising teams, manages hiring and development, establishes on-call and incident response practices, and represents the team to leadership and vendors. The role requires 10+ years of engineering experience, including at least 3 years managing software engineering teams in a live media, streaming, or ad tech context, along with expertise in ad servers, DSPs, VAST 4.x/VMAP, live streaming pipelines, and broadcast standards. Compensation is $436,000 to $791,000 annually, with comprehensive benefits.
