Software Engineer (L5), Content & Business Products

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 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.  

Our Content & Business Products (CBP) Engineering teams build the products and services to optimize and automate the content creation process including content planning, financing, production, promotion, and distribution. We support Netflix's enterprise needs including Finance, Talent, Tech Support, and Customer Support to ensure smooth operations. Our products enable the entire workflow of content production, from pitch to play, and provide innovative new ways to develop and manage entertainment at scale. The team’s work is critical to supporting the creation of movies and TV series that will thrill the world!

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 CBP Engineering Teams:

Content Security Engineering

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. Content Security is part of Studio Foundations Engineering (SFE), which 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.

Title Launch Management (TLM)
TLM builds and innovates the technology foundations of the title experience that allows us to understand, organize, and launch titles globally at scale. We are the bridge between the title creation lifecycle and the consumer experience. Titles refer to any type of entertainment we launch on Netflix including series & movies, games, ads, live events, trailers, promotional videos, and more.

Catalog Foundation & Distribution (CFD)

Members of the Catalog Foundations & Distribution (CFD) team play a pivotal role in delivering new and emerging content to millions of members worldwide! We build the engine behind the Netflix catalog, ensuring that every title and piece of metadata reaches consumer-scale systems cohesively, quickly, and safely. Our work is crucial for enabling engaging canvases, personalized recommendations, and seamless discovery experiences that bring "moments of joy" to our subscribers. As Netflix ventures into exciting new content domains like Live, Games, and Sports, the CFD team is at the forefront, building the critical foundations that accelerate these emerging business initiatives. You'll contribute to improving the speed and stability of our existing metadata systems, ensuring a lean footprint and fast data propagation, while also enhancing our safety features to protect against critical risks. This is an incredible opportunity to work on high-impact areas, driving business velocity and collaborating with partners across Netflix to deliver frequent wins for our stakeholders. If you're passionate about building robust, scalable systems that directly power the Netflix experience, we'd love to have you!

Merchandising and Content Understanding Engineering
The Content Promotion and Distribution (CPD) Engineering Organization creates technology to set up, promote, localize and launch content on the Netflix service and off service on social channels.  We build products and services that manage a global entertainment catalog and enable our members to discover, choose and talk about the content they can watch or play. Within the CPD organization, the Merchandising and Content Understanding Engineering Team is responsible for building technology that enables both human and machine learning based review of our entertainment catalog to enable classification and categorization. This powers the fundamental building blocks for how member discovery experience is constructed, how we target the right advertisements against the right content, and much more.
 

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.