Senior Software Engineer, Creative Compute and Storage

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer (L5), Creative Compute and Storage

The Creative Compute and Storage team designs develops and delivers technology infrastructure globally for the evolving needs of our creatives. As we expand our content creation globally, we seek the best and brightest engineering talent to be part of our growth.
Our team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to be part of the development and build-out of our purposefully developed infrastructure platforms. You will work with internal engineering teams, technical creatives, production teams, and external vendors worldwide to deliver amazing technology experiences for our creative users. We are looking for an experienced engineer who brings a broad set of technical skills and achievements, a development and automation-focused mindset to solving problems, and unique career and life experiences to join our teams as we continue to evolve entertainment worldwide.

Be sure to review our culture page and long-term view to learn more about the unique Netflix culture and the opportunity to be part of our team.

The Role:

As a Software Engineer focused on Infrastructure for Creative Compute & Storage, you'll be instrumental in solving large-scale creative workflow challenges. Your responsibilities will encompass the strategic design, management, and enhancement of our control plane, which globally orchestrates infrastructure resource placement.

In this position, you will have the opportunity to work in a wide variety of areas, such as:
• Designing orchestration to manage a large number of globally distributed systems.
• Constructing structured datasets and APIs to assist in managing and maintaining our fleet.
• Design, build and integrate with core VM, container, network and storage technologies.

You will be successful in this role if you enjoy:
• Being self-motivated, working independently, and partnering with a diverse group of engineers and product managers across different functional areas and organizations.
• Empowering other engineers by building and operating robust, scalable, and highly available infrastructures, with a focus on developer experience, observability, and operational excellence.
• Thriving in ambiguity, diving deep to understand problems and customer pain points, and solving them using appropriate technologies.
• Being an evangelist for high-quality code and engineering best practices.
• Assisting in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals, and helping build technical communities across the organization.
• Living the Netflix's culture and thinking you would thrive here.

Required Skills:
• Have 5+ years of expertise in Go, Java, or similar object-oriented languages, with confidence and experience in debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Have the ability to build and support highly scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant services.
• Have a demonstrated history in designing, constructing, and managing large systems with high availability, fault tolerance, and performance that are spread across multiple machines or networks.
• Have solid experience in setting technical directions for engineering projects, making architectural decisions, and influencing partner and cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with Linux and Linux systems programming.
• Experience with IaaS providers such as AWS, GCP, VMware, etc

Bonus Skills:
• Proficient with gRPC and/or GraphQL API design and implementation.
• Working experience with Kubernetes and PaaS offerings such as Heroku, CloudFoundry, etc.
• Working experience with KVM, QEMU, libvirt, OpenFlow, Open vSwitch.
• Experience with fault-tolerant, asynchronous workflows
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.

Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.

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, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

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