Software Engineer (4/5) — Developer Platform

At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. Together, we are writing the next episode - pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom and making the unimaginable a reality. We are a dream team obsessed with the uncomfortable excitement of discovering what happens when you merge creativity, intuition and cutting-edge technology. Come be a part of what’s next.

About The Developer Platform Teams The Infrastructure Engineering Organization at Netflix has teams focusing on a number of different areas including: modernization, resilience & reliability tooling, internal application interface development, improving the technical health of systems, and collecting and reporting on the metrics that help Netflix quantify and improve developer productivity.

At The Moment We Are Hiring For Following Teams Engineering Operations Tooling area

We Are Currently Expanding Following Teams In This Space Availability Tooling This group builds and owns the tooling that keeps Netflix's Infrastructure Engineering running smoothly, spanning fleet-wide change automation and availability tooling. On the availability side, we invest in cloud fleet monitoring and fleet-wide service dependency graph generation to ensure high availability and resiliency, alongside systems for deploying and monitoring changes at scale.

Knowledge Platform The Knowledge Platform — born from the merger of our Discovery & Learning (technical documentation) and Support Solutions (developer assistance) initiatives — is how Netflix engineers find answers, whether by reading great documentation or by asking a question and getting an immediate, accurate response. We're reimagining both spaces with cutting-edge GenAI: platforms for hosting and generating technical documentation, and support solutions that deliver fast, high-quality, GenAI-powered responses to developers at scale.

GenAI Productivity Tools The GenAI Productivity Tools team sits within Engineering Operations and is on a mission to accelerate Netflix's transformation into an AI-native company. We build the tooling, integrations, and platform infrastructure that puts powerful GenAI capabilities in the hands of every Product Manager and Designer at Netflix — not just the technically inclined few.

Today, there is a significant gap between GenAI power users and everyone else. Our team closes that gap. We build pre-configured AI workspaces, plug-and-plug MCP integrations, and curated knowledge connectors so that Netflix PM and XD teams can focus on doing great product work rather than wrestling with setup and tooling. We work cross-functionally with Engineering, Developer Experience, and PM/XD Operations to ship solutions that are opinionated, low-friction, and built for real jobs to be done.

About The Role We are seeking experienced Software Engineers who are passionate about writing software that will help other engineers write software. The ideal candidate will have a strong generalist background, having built complex applications in Java or other programming languages. This role requires demonstrated experience scaling services and applications to serve hundreds of users and thousands of requests per minute. Engineers in this job will interact with customers and product managers to ensure that the team is delivering the tools and features needed by Netflix. Writing design documents, driving changes across teams and organizations, and ensuring the reliability and success of productivity tools is a significant part of this role. The tools and services delivered by engineers in this role will span multiple parts of the stack (from persistence and data layers through business logic and service APIs to front-end user UX) so familiarity with each of those areas is required, though focus, experience, and expertise may be concentrated on one layer.

Key Responsibilities

• Software Development: Write software that assists other engineers in their software development processes.
• Application Building: Develop applications using Java, Python and other programming languages
• Service Scaling: Scale services and applications to efficiently handle hundreds of users and thousands of requests per minute.
• Customer and Product Interaction: Engage with customers and product managers to ensure the delivery of necessary tools and features.
• Design Documentation: Write design documents and drive changes across teams and organizations.
• Tool Reliability: Ensure the reliability and success of productivity tools.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work across different layers of the stack, focusing expertise on one layer while maintaining familiarity with others.
• Data Modelling & Analysis: Choose storage solutions and design data models for relation and non-relational datasets. Write queries and reports to power analytics and dashboards for customer teams and organizations.

Who You Are

• A skilled software engineer with experience in developer platform or productivity team proficient in back-end development (preferably in Java or Python)
• A meticulous software designer who researches and documents technical tradeoffs clearly and concisely.
• Able to manage projects independently from design to production.
• Able to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A developer who is passionate about writing tests for their code and has demonstrable experience solving difficult testing and reliability challenges in complex domains.
• A problem-solver who can leverage data to make quantitative decisions and seeks out creative approaches in order to derive useful signals from noisy systems.
• An effective collaborator who can work closely with customer teams and partner teams to create tailored strategies to execute software change campaigns effectively.
• A passionate advocate for developer productivity using tooling investments for better discovery, learning and support

Experience We’d Be Excited About

• Passion for maintaining the technical health of our software ecosystem to enable faster innovation
• Platform Engineering expertise
• Familiarity with managing applications in AWS and familiarity with the core AWS service and feature ecosystems (EC2, S3, etc.)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes or other container management solutions
• Experience designing, building, and operating continuous delivery and continuous integration systems.
• Full-Stack Development: deliver tools and services that span multiple parts of the stack, including persistence and data layers, business logic, service APIs, and front-end user experience (UX).

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.