Netflix Looking for Software Engineer (L4/5) – Engineering Experiences at Los Gatos, CA Full Time

Location: Los Gatos or US Remote only.
It’s an amazing time to be joining Netflix as we continue to transform entertainment. We deliver billions of hours of movies and TV shows per month to more than 230 million members in over 190 countries. At Netflix, we want to entertain the world. To achieve this, we must be able to rapidly build and ship innovative experiences for our members and creators all around the globe.

Who We Are
Engineering Experiences (EXO) is responsible for creating a unified, consistent experience across developer tools at Netflix. We work cross-functionally with partners across engineering to make working inside the Netflix engineering ecosystem more efficient and enjoyable for all. We focus on increasing productivity, minimizing toil, and managing the suite of tools at Netflix that “just work”, aka the paved road.

What You Could Work On
Our team is primarily responsible for the developer platform that powers the front door that the entire engineering organization will depend on for daily operations. Some example goals for projects include:

• Reduce friction, cognitive load, toil, and time required to adopt technologies across Netflix engineering.
• Simplify and standardize the resource ownership experience across Netflix to ensure all engineering resources have clear owners.
• Make it easier for engineers across the company to discover tools, applications, and Domain Graph Services.

What we’ll expect from you

• Cross-Functional – You enjoy collaborating with multiple teams on creating solutions with myriad, sometimes conflicting, requirements.
• Seeking Excellence – You enjoy the pursuit of engineering excellence by evangelizing, establishing, and iterating on best practices.
• Curiosity – You are curious and enjoy working on ambiguous problems where the solutions are not (yet) well defined.
• Communication – You are proficient in verbal and written mediums at explaining topics that the audience was not familiar with previously.

Core competencies

• You possess strong software skills in Java.
• You are proficient in the GraphQL spec and designing durable schemas consumed by many engineers for distinct product surfaces.
• You are proficient with configuring and querying production relational databases at scale.
• You are experienced with production distributed systems and how to debug them/how they can fail.

Helpful competencies

• You have worked on a developer platform team where other engineers were your customers.
• You have worked with product teams that leverage client-side caching, pagination, and GraphQL mutations.
• You have worked with generating analytics and insights from raw events.
• You have worked in microservice architecture at scale.
• You have worked with the Spring Boot framework.

What to Expect From Us

• High Impact – your work will touch every engineer at the company and be crucial for the ongoing success of Netflix.
• Stunning Colleagues – you will be working with other excellent people with diverse perspectives, who value collaboration, working to excel as the “dream team”.
• Energizing Challenges – there is a wealth of opportunity when working on complex technical projects and our culture both enables and encourages you to rise to the challenges.
• Feedback – you will constantly have opportunities for growth because meaningful positive and constructive feedback is part of everyday life at Netflix.

Our culture is unique, and we tend to live by our values, allowing you to do your best work and grow. To learn more about Productivity Engineering, feel free to listen to this podcast.
We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
At Netflix, we carefully consider a wide range of compensation factors to determine your personal top of market. We rely on market indicators to determine compensation and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to get it right. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary and will also be dependent on your location.
The overall market range for roles in this area of Netflix is typically $100,000 – $700,000.
This market range is based on total compensation (vs. only base salary), which is in line with our compensation philosophy. Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.