Netflix Looking for Software Engineer (L5) – Games Systems Engineering at Los Gatos, CA Full Time

Bring your passion for games and backend systems to help us achieve our next big objective, to reinvent video games on a global scale. Netflix fundamentally changed how the world watches television, with over 240 million members enjoying award-winning TV series, documentaries, and feature films. Join our team to help pioneer a next-generation video game platform that caters to a diverse, global member base.

About Player Data

Our goal is to empower game developers to seamlessly integrate and launch their greatest hits on the Netflix Game Developer platform. This role involves building and enhancing our product capabilities to deliver an unparalleled gaming experience, incorporating features like cloud saves, leaderboards, and achievements. A successful candidate will manage the full software development lifecycle, collaborating on product definition, development, deployment, and ongoing operations, with an emphasis on scalability to meet the demands of a worldwide audience.

In This Role, Success Is

• Leveraging 3-5 years of games platform experience to influence outcomes
• Taking ownership to deliver high-quality solutions in ambiguous environments
• Collaborating with senior engineers to influence product and architecture decisions
• Building and extending distributed systems to support new product features
• Operating complex services and troubleshooting cross-functional problems
• Designing highly scalable stateful services leveraging distributed datastores

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. The range for this role is $300,000 – $700,000.

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. See more detail about our Benefits here.

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