Software Engineer (L4), 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 experience crafting resilient, high-scale, low-latency 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.
• You have a proven track record of resilient data modeling through understanding and translating business requirements to technical requirements and identifying entities and their relationships that will serve the business process needs.
• You 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.
• You evangelize new ideas and exemplify technical leadership with a bias for action.
• You appreciate the complexity of engaging with a global challenge.

Spotlight on Content Engineering Teams:

Creative Innovation

The goal for Creative Innovation is to help make better promotional assets in conjunction with our creatives. We achieve this by delivering insights for all promotional assets on Netflix. We work closely with creatives, product, design and data scientists to understand what practices would help create an effective strategy for promotion ahead of launch as well as help analyze the efficacy of the strategy once a title is launched.

Promotional Video Engineering 

Promotional Video Engineering builds the products and services our creative partners use to maximize the reach of every title we launch, helping our members discover what to watch on Netflix while also driving conversation off Netflix. If you’ve ever watched a trailer for Netflix content on social media or seen clips play while browsing Netflix, you’ve experienced our impact. We enable the creation, localization, and review of clips and trailers at scale through a suite of applications that help manage millions of short videos. Some of our key technical challenges include: automated assembly of promotional videos, adapting video to different formats and aspect ratios, and managing video files and their associated metadata.

Core Catalog

The Core Catalog team creates products that advance Netflix innovation and subscriber offerings. Netflix is no longer just Movies and Shows, it also offers members Games, Live streams, and ad-tier subscriptions. These new content types require large investment in how we manage our catalog and create the systems that enable our business users around the world to set up, promote, and distribute our titles across multiple platforms.

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.