Software Engineer (L5), Content Engineering

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with 283 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.

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:

Content Security Engineering

Studio Foundations Engineering (SFE), part of CIS plays a pivotal role in Netflix's content and games creation and delivery journey. The seamless magic of your favorite show starting with a click is the result of thousands of intricate processes and workflows behind the scenes that are enabled by our tools. We empower Netflix studios to bring creative excellence to life, build tools to bring operational excellence, and accomplish economies of scale. Our solutions aim to elevate the ROI of the $15 billion dollars spent on content creation through cost/time efficiency, and data-driven decision-making. We also provide technology to manage end-user access and build tools that help with resourcing workflows resulting in the production and delivery of the highest-quality content. Netflix leverages a large internal and external workforce to produce and deliver content to members. Globally, many thousands of people get access to sensitive data and applications to do this work. As part of the Content Security team, you will focus on building scalable solutions that help to identify areas of security risk across our business product ecosystem and prevent unintended exposure of Netflix pre-release assets and data. 

A few more things about us:

As a team, we come from many different countries and our fields of education range from the humanities to engineering to computer science. Our team includes product managers, program managers, designers, full-stack developers, distributed systems engineers, and data scientists. Folks have the opportunity to wear different hats, should they choose to. We strongly believe this diversity has helped us build an inclusive and empathetic environment and look forward to adding your perspective to the mix!

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 $170,000 - $720,000.

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.

Netflix is a unique culture and environment.  Learn more here.

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

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