Software Engineer (L5), Content Engineering

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services with 278 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.

The Role At Netflix, we want to entertain the world and are constantly innovating on how entertainment is imagined, created, and delivered to a global audience. Engineering teams within Netflix work hard every day to scale and innovate content production and member experiences in an ever-growing complex software landscape.

Content Engineering builds the products and services used by our internal and external creative partners to create, launch, and promote our global content and ads. Our products enable the entire workflow of content creation, from pitch to play, and provide innovative new ways to develop and manage entertainment at scale.

Qualifications

• You have 5+ years of experience crafting resilient, high-scale, low-latency, distributed microservices in production environments.
• Proficient with gRPC, GraphQL, or RESTful API design and implementation.
• Have recent proficient experience with Java, C#, or other OO programming languages with a solid understanding of OO design principles, concurrency, multi-threading, performance tuning, and observability.
• Have a proven track record in architecting, building, and operating distributed systems with high availability, fault tolerance, and performance.
• Have solid experience in setting technical directions for engineering projects, making architectural decisions, and influencing partner and cross-functional teams.
• Have the ability to proactively describe complex technical concepts to a variety of stakeholders, driving conversations and decisions through written and/or verbal communication.
• Participate in our on-call rotation and lead the incident reviews.

What Sets You Apart

• Curious about a broad range of new or unfamiliar technologies, the consumer base, and product vision.
• Seek different perspectives, feedback, and relevant information to continuously grow and improve.
• Maintain strong relationships with cross-functional teams through clear communication.
• Take a thoughtful, practical approach to problem-solving that considers tradeoffs and avoids over-engineering.
• Comfortable asking questions and seeking knowledge in unfamiliar or ambiguous situations.
• Endeavor to elevate the knowledge, skills, and abilities of yourself and others that are conducive to fostering an inclusive, collaborative environment.

Spotlight on Content Engineering Teams: Marketing Technology Engineering (MarTech) MarTech Engineering is reinventing how we enable Marketing to spark, amplify, and shape conversations that put us in the cultural zeitgeist. We want everything we put out in the world to create ripples that reach even wider audiences. We are building products that enable the entire workflow of marketing campaigns to scale globally. We focus on marketing assets; the main way in which a campaign comes to life, and which allows us to tell stories about Netflix stories. This team closely partners with Product Management, UX Design, Data Scientists, UI Engineering, and various marketing business teams to define and implement strategies to optimize the planning of marketing assets, including those in our social media channels. You will help us build technologies to empower our creative partners to efficiently manage creative assets that drive conversations at scale. You will architect, design, and implement backend services that power products used internally at Netflix, as well as externally by our content, fulfillment partners, creative agencies, and freelancers that work with Netflix to promote one of the best entertainment catalogs in the world.