Job Specifications
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
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!
Source Acquisition Platform (SAP)
The Source Acquisition Platform team is responsible for the applications and services touching the acquisition, management, and evaluation of assets such as video, music and effects, subtitles, dubs, and everything used to create shows and movies available on Netflix. Our suite of services is the bedrock for applications used both int