Netflix

Director, Cloud Gaming Infrastructure

USA - Remote · Director · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 6 days ago

Distributed SystemsCloud PlatformsSite Reliability EngineeringData ScienceSystems EngineeringVoIPLeadershipCommunication

About the role

This is a foundational, high-visibility role at the center of that effort.
This role oversees a significant hardware investment supporting massive concurrent user scale, and is directly accountable for the technical and operational success of one of Netflix's key growth bets.
The range for this role is $737,000.00 - $1,430,000.00.

Own the strategy, architecture, and roadmap for cloud gaming infrastructure, spanning the Game OS, cloud gaming software stack, telemetry, control plane, and transport.
Lead and grow the engineering organization responsible for building and operating this infrastructure, including hiring into open technical leadership and IC roles.
Partner closely with hardware, OS, encoding, capacity planning, and SRE/Ops functions to deliver an end-to-end, reliable platform.
Collaborate with peer leaders across Infrastructure and Games Platform teams to ensure coherent, well-integrated systems.
Strong people-leadership instincts, especially the ability to develop a team that is growing quickly and still filling out its leadership bench.

Proven track record leading large-scale distributed systems engineering teams, ideally spanning software, hardware, and network/transport layers.
Deep technical expertise in one or more of: cloud infrastructure at scale, real-time/low-latency media delivery, game development, control planes.

Experience owning infrastructure with significant capital investment (hardware fleets, data center capacity) and being accountable for its economics, not just its uptime.
Demonstrated ability to operate in ambiguous, emerging domains without established best practices, and to make sound technical bets under uncertainty.
Strong track record of cross-functional partnership with Product, Data Science, and adjacent Engineering orgs, including influencing without direct authority across dotted-line and peer relationships.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to represent complex infrastructure tradeoffs clearly to both technical peers and senior/executive stakeholders.
Prior experience in console gaming, cloud gaming, game streaming, or interactive real-time media (e.g., WebRTC, game streaming protocols, encoding/transport optimization).
Background at a company that has built a large-scale gaming or media-streaming platform (e.g., console manufacturers, cloud gaming providers, video/live-streaming infrastructure teams).
Experience standing up or significantly scaling a new platform or product line from an early or emerging stage.
Familiarity with CDN or edge infrastructure economics, capacity planning, and fleet-level cost optimization.

Report on infrastructure health, cost, and scaling risk to senior leadership, and translate business goals (member growth, engagement, unit economics) into infrastructure priorities.

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