Remote Software Engineer (L5), Content Engineering

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The Role

Netflix is on a mission to entertain the world, continually reimagining how content is produced, presented, and delivered to a global audience. With streaming available in over 30 languages across 190 countries and a subscriber base exceeding 260 million, Netflix is pushing into new entertainment realms, including gaming and live events. Our engineering teams play a key role in scaling and innovating content creation and user experiences in an increasingly intricate software environment.

The Content Engineering team develops the tools and platforms that Netflix’s creative partners use to create, launch, and market content worldwide. These solutions streamline every step of content creation, from initial ideas to viewing, providing novel ways to scale and manage entertainment.

Qualifications

• Over 5 years of experience building resilient, high-performance, distributed microservices in production.
• Expertise in gRPC, GraphQL, or RESTful API design and deployment.
• Recent proficiency in Java, C#, or other OO languages, with solid understanding of OO design principles, concurrency, multi-threading, performance tuning, and system observability.
• Proven experience architecting, developing, and managing distributed systems with high availability and fault tolerance.
• Skilled in setting technical direction for projects, making architectural decisions, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to clearly explain complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders and guide discussions.
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotations and lead incident reviews.

What Sets You Apart

• Eagerness to explore new technologies, understand consumer needs, and align with the product vision.
• Actively seek diverse feedback and information to drive continuous improvement.
• Build strong cross-functional relationships through clear, effective communication.
• Take a balanced, practical approach to problem-solving, considering trade-offs to avoid over-engineering.
• Comfortable asking questions and learning in new or uncertain situations.
• Committed to fostering a collaborative, inclusive environment that supports skill development for yourself and others.