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).