Director, Cloud Gaming Infrastructure

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $695k - $1.8M / year

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Director

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Netflix

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1997

📱 Media

👥 B2C

Media • B2C

Netflix is a global streaming entertainment company and content producer whose stated mission is "to entertain the world. " It operates a consumer-facing subscription platform offering on-demand TV shows, films, and original programming, and also runs a public careers site emphasizing culture, inclusion, and hiring accommodations. The provided text highlights Netflix’s focus on recruiting talent worldwide, its work-life and culture pages, and its public-facing employer materials.

📋 Description

• 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 the infrastructure, including hiring technical leadership and IC roles • Partner with hardware, OS, encoding, capacity planning, and SRE/Ops functions to deliver an end-to-end reliable platform • Drive technical and economic innovation to make cloud gaming viable at scale • Serve as the primary technical bridge between Infrastructure, Games Platform, and Games Studio • Represent infrastructure capabilities and constraints in product and studio planning conversations • Collaborate with peer leaders across Infrastructure and Games Platform teams to ensure coherent, integrated systems • Set technical direction and quality standards in a domain without an established industry playbook • Make technical judgment calls in the absence of proven patterns • Report infrastructure health, cost, and scaling risk to senior leadership • Translate business goals, including member growth, engagement, and unit economics, into infrastructure priorities

🎯 Requirements

• 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, including hardware fleets and data center capacity, and accountability for its economics • Demonstrated ability to operate in ambiguous, emerging domains without established best practices and make sound technical bets under uncertainty • Strong track record of cross-functional partnership with Product, Data Science, and adjacent Engineering organizations • Experience influencing without direct authority across dotted-line and peer relationships • Experience managing and developing engineering managers and senior ICs • Judgment to grow a team while augmenting individual skills with AI tooling • Excellent communication skills for explaining complex infrastructure tradeoffs to technical peers and senior/executive stakeholders • Prior experience in console gaming, cloud gaming, game streaming, or interactive real-time media is preferred • Background at a company that has built a large-scale gaming or media-streaming platform is preferred • Experience standing up or significantly scaling a new platform or product line is preferred • Familiarity with CDN or edge infrastructure economics, capacity planning, and fleet-level cost optimization is preferred • Experience tying infrastructure investment decisions to broader strategic growth bets is preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Health Plans • Mental Health support • 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match • Stock Option Program • Disability Programs • Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts • Family-forming benefits • Life and Serious Injury Benefits • 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