Netflix Looking for Software Engineer (L4) – Platform Modernization at Los Gatos, CA Full Time

At Netflix, we aspire to entertain the world. We deliver billions of hours of movies and TV shows per month to more than 230 million members in over 190 countries. It’s an amazing time to be joining Netflix as we continue to transform entertainment.

Within the Platform Engineering organization at Netflix, the Modernization Engineering team’s mission is to enable Netflix engineering teams to rapidly build and create innovative experiences by making infrastructure changes transparent. We are the central team responsible for evangelizing evolution in our tech stack to provide a safe, healthy and efficient software ecosystem. We identify and drive product adoptions and software changes for the fleet of infrastructure and services spanning the company. Collaboration is core to our team’s identity. We work closely with our engineering teams across the company to accelerate their adoption of new products and deprecation of old products.

We are hiring full stack engineers to build and manage scalable automation to improve the migration experience for our customers. We are looking for generalizing specialists who have the aptitude and agility to work on a broad spectrum of applications with passion.

Responsibilities

• Partner with other teams in Platform Engineering organization to deeply understand the current product suite, customer personas, usage patterns, on-ramp and off-ramp flows.
• Collaborate closely with customer teams and explain the value proposition and technical requirements of change campaigns, understand their use case scenarios and software ecosystem to create tailored strategies to execute software change campaigns effectively
• Develop and maintain automation and tooling to effectively plan, gather insights and execute change campaigns through completion
• Partner with a cross functional team of stakeholders from Engineering Leadership, Product Management and Technical Program Management to identify future high leverage opportunities to increase development velocity at Netflix and reduce total cost of ownership

Requirements

• 4+ years of previous experience in a Software Engineering role
• Professional level proficiency in Java, Python, Go or Javascript
• Experience developing and operating services receiving high scale traffic
• Deep understanding of microservices based distributed systems architecture with high availability
• Exceptional collaboration and communication skills and a product centric mindset
• Bias to action to deliver outcomes in partnership with customer teams

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, 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 $80,000 – $550,000.

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.