Netflix · 1 week ago
Product Manager, Developer Platform - Application Development Platforms
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$240K/yr - $725K/yr
8+ years expNetflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, and they are seeking a highly technical product manager to drive the vision and strategy for their Application Development Platforms. The role focuses on enhancing developer productivity and experience within the Java ecosystem while managing the core components that enable application development.
Digital EntertainmentMedia and EntertainmentTVVideo Streaming
Responsibilities
Drive Product Vision and Strategy: Deeply understand and triangulate across customer needs, developer productivity metrics, operational data, and external industry innovation to shape the vision and strategy for Netflix’s JVM ecosystem and Java application development offerings, ensuring they maximize business and developer impact
Roadmap & Alignment: Partner closely with senior engineering leaders and stakeholders to define a forward-looking roadmap. Align on priorities and trade-offs that support Netflix’s technology strategy
Execution & Delivery: Develop product roadmaps in partnership with engineering teams that execute on your vision. Clearly articulate problems to be solved, and see features through from idea to launch
Metrics-Driven Improvement: Define key success measures (e.g., build times, time to deploy, framework migration progress, performance metrics) and drive experiments or initiatives to continuously improve those metrics, fostering a metrics-driven mindset for developer productivity
User Engagement: Create strong partnerships with Netflix engineers through regular outreach and feedback loops. Gather input via interviews, surveys, and usage data to deeply understand their workflow challenges. Champion the voice of the developer
Technical Excellence & Reliability: Drive technical excellence in our Java application framework and runtime systems. Ensure these systems are highly reliable, secure, and performant
Industry Awareness & Build vs. Buy: Stay informed about advancements in languages ecosystems, application frameworks, and build tooling. Evaluate opportunities to incorporate cutting-edge tools or practices and conduct thoughtful buy-vs-build analyses
Prioritization & Focus: Prioritize effectively to maximize impact, balancing quick wins with foundational investments, and user experience improvements with technical scalability. Maintain clarity on short-term vs. long-term goals
Qualification
Required
8+ years of Product Management experience (or equivalent technical role), with a proven track record of managing and evolving a broad product portfolio and driving product vision and strategy in a complex, technical domain
Strong technical knowledge and depth of application development fundamentals, the JVM ecosystem, modern application frameworks, build systems, and dependency management methodologies
A healthy blend of deep technical knowledge with a customer-focused mindset and empathy for engineers. You must be comfortable discussing topics like design trade-offs and system quality attributes (scalability, reliability, performance, security) with engineering teams
Demonstrated passion for developer platforms, tools, workflows, and infrastructure, staying up-to-date on industry best practices in DevOps/DevEx
Strategic thinking that can connect customer use cases and pain points to innovative technology solutions, thinking holistically about the end-to-end experience
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels and navigate complex organizational boundaries
Comfortable applying a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to define success, prioritize problems, and measure impact
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.
Company
Netflix
Netflix is an online streaming platform that enables users to watch TV shows and movies.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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$63.91BKey Investors
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2025-12-05Post Ipo Debt· $59B
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Leadership Team
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Co-CEO
Ted Sarandos
Co-CEO
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