Technical Program Manager 6 - Growth Commerce Platform Engineering

Netflix Netflix · Big Tech · Los Gatos, CA +1 · Engineering Operations

Technical Program Manager for Netflix's Growth Commerce Platform, focusing on tier-0 commerce systems that manage revenue, subscriptions, payments, and partnerships. The role involves leading cross-functional initiatives to enhance system resilience, manage engineering risks, and coordinate complex technical deliverables in a high-scale distributed environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Spearhead cross-functional initiatives to increase the resilience of tier-0 commerce flows.
  2. Lead Execution for highly cross-functional initiatives along with engineering Leads to accomplish highly ambitious goals to evolve commerce at Netflix.
  3. Build repeatable templates and practices for execution and communication across the Commerce Platform and beyond.
  4. Aggregate and track overall engineering risks in delivery to prioritize, and resolve them.
  5. Manage cross-functional dependencies, risks, and changes across engineering-led initiatives, such as new capabilities, system migrations, and initiatives that touch multiple teams within the Commerce Platform and Consumer Engineering.

Skills

Required

  • Understanding of challenges in high-scale distributed systems, architectures, and data layers.
  • Ability to communicate and partner successfully with deeply technical backend engineers.
  • Experience in identifying tradeoffs, surfacing needs for clarity, and driving decision-making.
  • Highly skilled in orchestrating programs with many moving parts—people, needs, and technologies.
  • Excellent written communication skills and ability to present technical content to non-technical audiences including clear articulations of business impact and technical constraints tailored to the audience.
  • Data-driven mindset in decision-making.
  • A natural inclination to structure and plan, balanced by the ability to pivot with unknowns.
  • Attention to detail and ability to represent engineering concerns.
  • Background in CS or related Engineering.
  • 4+ years of experience driving large-scale SW projects
  • 4+ years of experience as a backend engineer building or testing stateful systems.
  • Domain knowledge of Commerce systems working at mega-scale (millions of requests per second).
  • Experience managing projects across cross-functional teams, building sustainable processes, and coordinating release schedules.
  • Self-starter who enjoys tackling 0 to 1 problem spaces and quickly bringing organization and direction.

What the JD emphasized

  • highly cross-functional
  • highly ambitious goals
  • many moving parts—people, needs, and technologies
  • 4+ years of experience driving large-scale SW projects
  • 4+ years of experience as a backend engineer building or testing stateful systems
  • Domain knowledge of Commerce systems working at mega-scale (millions of requests per second)