Senior Software Engineer (L5) - Client Delivery Platform

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.

About the team:

We innovate on delivery orchestration, real-time metrics derived from a firehose of user events, and analysis on these metrics enabling the client engineers to focus on frequently releasing their applications. Our application releases are an AB test (more details available in the Safe Updates of Client Applications at Netflix blog post). We are constantly evolving our allocation strategy, metrics, and inferential analysis to account for the constraints that impact our use case. As we invested in systems to continuously evaluate application changes, it led to increased development velocity, which arguably led to better development practices and quality of the applications. We are extending these systems to be available beyond our streaming business domain, exposing us to a plethora of new challenges, making every single day at work an opportunity to learn and build something new.

About the role

The Client Delivery Platform team builds foundational components to enable continuous delivery so that when a Netflix member clicks "play" they have a terrific experience. As an Engineer, you will focus on making experiments and canaries easy to implement. You will work closely with our Data Science and Metrics teams to take statistical modeling tools and make them accessible and easy for developers to use. This role requires a strong engineering background with a focus on backend development, and a passion for experimentation and innovation.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Data Science and Metrics teams to integrate statistical modeling tools into our development processes.

• Develop and maintain web services that facilitate experimentation and canary deployments.

• Implement and optimize RPC, REST, and GraphQL services, ensuring scalability and performance.

• Work with relational and document databases, and scaling caches to support our backend infrastructure.

• Engage in bespoke engineering projects, tailoring solutions to meet specific needs.

• Focus on making experiments and canaries easy to implement.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in backend or frontend engineering, with a strong understanding of web services and APIs.

• Experience with experimentation / AB test delivery and allocation services.

• Analytic skills related to working with large streaming datasets.

• Design & programming skills in an object-oriented programming language, preferably Java/Scala

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Bonus if You Have:

• Knowledge of descriptive and inductive statistics.

• Familiarity with messaging/queuing systems and stream processing systems like Mantis, Flink, or Spark Streaming.

• Experience with time series data stores like Atlas or Druid.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Our culture is unique, and we live by our values, so it’s worth learning more about Netflix culture.

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 $100,000 - $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.

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.