Director, Cloud Gaming Infrastructure

At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. Together, we are writing the next episode - pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom and making the unimaginable a reality.

Netflix is building a cloud gaming platform - a feat achieved by only a handful of industry leaders. This is a foundational, high-visibility role at the center of that effort. The Director, Cloud Gaming Infrastructure will lead the team responsible for the operating system software, hardware, control plane, and transport that power Netflix's cloud games experience, delivering engaging, low-latency gameplay to members at scale while driving toward sustainable unit economics.

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.

Responsibilities

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.

Drive the technical and economic innovation required to make cloud gaming viable at scale — this role is expected to find approaches that others have not.

Serve as the primary technical bridge between Infrastructure, Games Platform, and Games Studio, representing infrastructure capabilities and constraints in product and studio planning conversations.

Collaborate with peer leaders across Infrastructure and Games Platform teams to ensure coherent, well-integrated systems.

Set technical direction and quality bar for a domain with no established industry playbook, making judgment calls in the absence of proven patterns.

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

Minimum Qualifications

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.

Experience managing and developing engineering managers and senior ICs.

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to represent complex infrastructure tradeoffs clearly to both technical peers and senior/executive stakeholders.

Preferred / Desired Experience

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.

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.

Experience working within a company where infrastructure investment decisions are closely tied to a broader strategic "growth bet."

Generally, our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. The range for this role is $695,000.00 - $1,760,000.00. This compensation range will vary based on location.

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.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.

• Proven leadership of large-scale distributed systems teams across software, hardware, and network layers.
• Deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, real-time media delivery, game development, or control planes.
• Experience managing capital-intensive infrastructure with accountability for economics and uptime.