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Software Engineering Manager jobs at Netflix sit at the intersection of technical leadership and organizational scale, where you're expected to drive engineering culture as much as code quality. Netflix has a consistent track record of sponsoring international talent across multiple visa categories for this function, making it a realistic target for qualified candidates.
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INTRODUCTION
Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films, and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause, and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.
We launched a new ad-supported tier in November 2022 and are building an in-house world-class ad tech ecosystem to offer our members more choices in consuming their content. Our new tier allows us to attract new members at a lower price point while also creating a compelling path for advertisers to reach deeply engaged audiences. We wrapped up our first two years of the journey and are well into year three with more exciting things to come!
OUR TEAM
The Ads Engineering team at Netflix is dedicated to creating a world-class advertising ecosystem that drives our advertising business. This team's mission is to develop advanced technology that ensures exceptional experiences for both our members and advertisers. Our responsibilities encompass a broad spectrum of products, ranging from sales and media planning to optimizing advertiser outcomes and execution. This includes inventory and order management, campaign execution, ad serving, audience and identity management, measurement, reporting, and finance.
We use several Netflix investments and innovations - a unique mix of client and server-side ad insertions, state-of-the-art content delivery systems, ad encoding recipes, content understanding, and metadata, etc. We deliver ads in a manner that’s thoughtful of our member’s viewing experience and drive great outcomes for advertisers. We also ensure that advertiser brand safety is ensured during serving so that members only see the most appropriate ads for them.
Our team is faced with the enormous ambitions of building highly performant advertising systems and delivering high impact to our business by monetizing our incredible slate of content. As one of the newest entrants in the Connected TV advertising space that’s rapidly growing, we seek to build unique value propositions that help us differentiate us and become a market leader in record time. Our roles come with expectations of delivering in a rapid clip, comfort with lofty goals and big ambitions, the visibility that comes with strategic initiatives, and responsibility and an appetite to operate like a startup within an established company.
We are looking for engineers to join us on this journey, to be a part of some exciting initiatives, and the talented teams who work on realizing our ambitious vision.
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE’RE SEEKING:
- Well grounded domain experience in any of the following areas: Ad Serving, Ads Identity & Audiences, Ads Creatives, Inventory & Forecasting, Campaign Management, Media Planning, Measurement, Reporting, or Ads Finance.
- General understanding of the advertising marketplace and landscape.
- Worked closely with ad operations to enable campaign setup, targeting, reporting, and advertiser needs.
- Developed many cloud-based applications and comfortable with modern programming languages (preferably object-oriented).
- Familiar with A/B testing and experimentation.
- Have solid experience in setting technical directions for engineering projects, making architectural decisions, and influencing partner and cross-functional teams.
NICE TO HAVES:
- Contributed to an ads industry technology standard (e.g VAST, OpenRTB) or worked on an industry consortium effort, working group etc.
- Familiarity with legal compliance and changing landscape of ads regulations around the world.
- Experience working in the CTV space and knowledge of its unique constraints.
SPOTLIGHT ON ADS ENGINEERING TEAMS:
The Ads Member Experience team is part of the core Ads Serving group and is responsible for building and serving the different ad formats available on the platform. The team owns the integration between the different Netflix clients (TV, mobile app, web) and the ads serving infrastructure. One of its primary goals is to optimize how different ad formats are integrated with the Netflix member experience, in order to better serve both our users and our advertisers.
The Ads Programmatic team at Netflix is responsible for the strategic development and operational execution of programmatic advertising within the Netflix Ad Server ecosystem. This team focuses on building third-party demand integrations to maximize programmatic channels, driving significant advertising revenue for Netflix, while ensuring positive performance and value delivery for advertising partners. The team is dedicated to building a world-class programmatic advertising ecosystem that significantly contributes to the overall success of Netflix's advertising business.
The Ads Media Planning team is at the heart of designing and delivering state-of-the-art media planning solutions that power Netflix’s advertising business. We are developing innovative, in-house ad tech systems that enable advertisers and internal partners to efficiently plan, allocate, and optimize media investments across Netflix’s platform. Our technology translates advertiser objectives into actionable media plans, ensuring seamless integration, automation, optimization, compliance, and management of media strategies at scale. We work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver robust media planning capabilities that serve our advertisers, members, and Netflix’s broader business goals.
The Ads Platform Foundations team builds the core platforms, frameworks, and shared services that accelerate development across the Ads organization. We focus on enabling teams to move faster and build consistently through scalable UI infrastructure, common components, and foundational workflows. Our work also powers access control across domains and underpins core systems such as Public API, GenAI foundations, and the Ads Entity Service — a knowledge graph connecting all Ads entities. Together, we provide the technical backbone that drives consistency, reliability, and velocity across Ads.
The Ads Campaign Management team is responsible for our in-house Order Management System (OMS) used by our account managers to facilitate the booking and execution of advertising campaigns on behalf of Agencies, Brands, and Advertisers. The team owns key parts of our campaign hierarchy (Orders, Line Items) and closely intersects with almost every other team across Ads Engineering (Creatives, Forecasting, Audiences, Measurement, Ad Serving, etc) as well as business teams across Account Management and Ad Operations to facilitate the set-up, execution, and monitoring of ads across the Netflix ecosystem.
The Ads Inventory Management & Forecasting team builds state-of-art real-time inventory forecasting solutions leveraging ML models and high-performance ad server simulations. The team also builds systems that enable publisher inventory management solutions, which support various monetization strategies such as dynamic pricing, rate card management, product packaging, inventory split, and yield optimization.
The Ads Data Clean Room team is redefining how clean rooms are used in digital advertising. We’re building data collaboration tools as internal services, allowing multiple teams to share data with external partners in a convenient and privacy-safe way. Our scope extends beyond traditional clean room use cases to include novel integrations where data has traditionally been shared more openly. As the ads data landscape evolves, our team will continue to lead by creating new ways to enable collaboration while protecting privacy.
The Ads Finance team’s vision is to establish a compliant, accurate, automated, and omni-channel Finance and billing system that streamlines and optimizes financial operations for ads, with a core charter to create a unified and compliant Revenue Recognition layer, Automate billing, Invoicing and Journal processes. The Ads Finance platform centralizes and validates all the raw data—from campaign performance to pricing structures—needed to calculate and bill our diverse advertising revenue streams. This ensures financial integrity and consistency, providing a reliable foundation for all core Ad business operations, including budgeting, predicting future revenue, and managing credit and pricing strategies.
The Ads CRM team delivers the AI-powered Go-to-Market platform, the strategic engine for Netflix Ads sales and marketing. We don't just collect customer data; we create a unified, enriched view of our customers and their ad spend across every source, managing the entire lifecycle for impeccable quality and completeness. Our intuitive UI and intelligent automation agents surface critical, actionable insights, empowering our sales teams to cut through the noise, focus on high-value client engagements, and accelerate the success of Netflix Ads.
COMPENSATION
- The range for this role is $170,000 - $720,000.
Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range.
Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer 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.
Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.
We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
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Frame your leadership scope upfront
Netflix evaluates Software Engineering Manager candidates on org-building as much as technical depth. Before applying, document the size of teams you've led, systems you've owned, and measurable outcomes, so your credentials map clearly to their scale.
Target roles tied to growth verticals
Netflix's engineering hiring concentrates around streaming infrastructure, personalization, and platform reliability. Positioning your background in one of these areas, rather than applying broadly, signals genuine fit and increases the likelihood your team will push for sponsorship.
Clarify visa type eligibility before your first interview
Netflix sponsors multiple visa categories for this role. If you're on F-1 OPT, confirm your STEM extension window aligns with their typical offer-to-start timeline, which can run several months, before you reach the offer stage.
Understand where the PERM process fits
For Green Card sponsorship via EB-2 or EB-3, DOL's PERM labor certification requires Netflix to run a supervised recruitment process. At the manager level, this often takes longer than individual contributor filings, so raise it with your recruiter early if permanent residency is a priority.
Search verified sponsorship-friendly roles on Migrate Mate
Not every Software Engineering Manager opening at Netflix is approved for sponsorship at the time it's posted. Use Migrate Mate to filter roles confirmed for visa sponsorship so you're only investing effort in positions that can actually move your application forward.
Negotiate your start date around H-1B cap timing
If you need a cap-subject H-1B, USCIS only accepts petitions in April for an October 1 start. If Netflix extends an offer outside that window, discuss a deferred start or a bridge arrangement through OPT or another status to avoid losing the role.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Netflix sponsor H-1B visas for Software Engineering Managers?
Yes, Netflix sponsors H-1B visas for Software Engineering Manager roles. Because this is a specialty occupation requiring a directly related degree and significant technical experience, it fits the H-1B classification cleanly. If you're subject to the annual cap, your petition would need to clear the USCIS lottery, so confirm your current status and timeline with your recruiter before the offer stage.
How do I apply for Software Engineering Manager jobs at Netflix?
Apply directly through Netflix's careers site, but prepare for a rigorous process that typically includes a recruiter screen, a systems design or engineering leadership discussion, and multiple rounds focused on culture fit and people management philosophy. Netflix is known for its high-autonomy, high-accountability culture, so your application materials and interview responses should reflect direct experience leading self-directed engineering teams. Migrate Mate also lists open Software Engineering Manager positions at Netflix filtered by visa sponsorship eligibility.
Which visa types does Netflix commonly use for Software Engineering Manager roles?
Netflix sponsors H-1B, E-3 visa, TN visa, and J-1 visas for this role, and also supports F-1 OPT and CPT for candidates transitioning from academic programs. Australian citizens are often well-positioned through the E-3 visa category, which carries no lottery and allows renewable two-year increments. For longer-term paths, Netflix also files for EB-2 and EB-3 Green Card sponsorship for qualifying managers.
What qualifications does Netflix expect for a Software Engineering Manager?
Netflix consistently looks for Software Engineering Managers with a computer science or related technical degree, several years of hands-on engineering experience, and a demonstrated track record managing mid-to-large engineering teams. At senior levels, they expect you to have owned significant technical systems end-to-end. Candidates who can speak concretely to engineering strategy, hiring decisions, and cross-functional collaboration tend to advance further in the process.
How do I time my visa filing if Netflix makes me an offer?
Timing depends on your current visa status. If you need a cap-subject H-1B, USCIS accepts new petitions only in early April for an October 1 start date, so an offer outside that window requires a bridge plan. If you're on OPT, confirm your remaining authorized period covers Netflix's typical onboarding timeline. Discuss sponsorship specifics with Netflix's immigration team as early as the offer stage to avoid delays.