Software Engineer - Game Lifecycle Engineering

Job Description

Software Engineer (L5) - Game Lifecycle Engineering

Bring your passion for games and joy of partnership as we build our games developer experience. We grew Netflix to 230 million subscribers in 190 countries through investing in our partnerships. Help us expand our business-to-business ecosystem as we embark on our next adventure in games!

As a full stack engineer in our Game Lifecycle team, you will work alongside amazing colleagues to provide solutions for both external game studios and internal game stakeholders. We scale our management of game lifecycle and provide the developer gateway to Netflix's games platform.

The ideal candidate is a full stack or backend application engineer who can deliver quickly and then adapt for our emerging games business. You will succeed by leveraging your web-development skills, applying a product mindset, and drawing on your previous experience in building an internal-external collaboration platform.

Growth: You like to stretch your thinking and increase your impact.

Collaboration: You love working with others and getting things done.

Judgment: You adapt to deliver solutions that balance expediency and durability.
Own: You are mindful of the end-to-end flow and sustainable operation of our solutions.

While the team is based in Los Gatos, California, we are open to remote work if amenable with West Coast time zone hours and periodic trips to the office.

Success in this role means:
• Enabling a growing number of game developer studios to easily create, integrate, test, and validate their games with the Netflix games platform.
• Strongly connecting with product management, XD and technology teams as we iterate and evolve strategy.
• Engaging with partnership products, third-party software/middleware tools providers, and game technologies to automate and streamline our game development lifecycle.

Who we're looking for:
• 5+ years of backend development experience or backend-leaning full stack development experience
• Strong Java and JavaScript programming skills
• Prior work on a business-to-business portal or a game development platform
• Inspired to improve software developers' lives

At Netflix, we carefully consider a wide range of compensation factors to determine your personal top of market. We rely on market indicators to determine compensation and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to get it right. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary and will also be dependent on your location.

The overall market range for roles in this area of Netflix is typically $90,000 - 900,000

This market range is based on total compensation (vs. only base salary), which is in line with our compensation philosophy. Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-dy96p3-18-216-190-167-42 in your application.