Software Engineer L5 - Cloud Games Infrastructure

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.

Bring your passion for games and the joy of enabling others as we build our games experience. We are rapidly expanding new gaming offerings, so we are seeking an engineer with a wide breadth of experience who is excited to help us lead the continued building and scaling of our efforts for our international audience.

This role involves architecting, authoring, and maintaining highly-complex software stacks for our cloud gaming service. This requires an engineer comfortable working throughout the application pipeline, including hardware accelerated video/audio/data processing, media encoding/decoding, and network transport algorithms. This role requires engineers whose expertise covers optimizing both local system performance (writing high-performance, efficient code with a deep understanding of both hardware and software dynamics) and total system performance (including efficient and effective use of Internet connectivity and GPU utilization). All engineers must be comfortable with producing high-quality solutions to business problems in the midst of high ambiguity to continue to push the boundary on what they can accomplish. We provide the freedom to execute, learn and pivot, and the responsibility to be self directed, collaborative and insightful. This gives you the freedom to do your best work and contribute directly to the success of the business. 

You will be successful in this role if you:

• Are a quick learner and excited about learning new technologies

• Advocate software craftsmanship and take pride in your work

• Thrive in an environment with lots of context and minimal guidance

• Enjoy collaborating with engineers across functional teams and have excellent communication skills

• Enjoy taking full ownership of projects from conception to production

• Are comfortable working in multiple different areas of a backend software stack

Qualifications:

• Experience developing and optimizing high performance, real-time applications such as games or simulations

• Strong low-level coding skills in Golang and/or C++

• Experience working in complex codebases

• Experience developing for a variety of different hardware platforms

• Comfortable learning and working with a wide variety of technologies

We are currently hiring three roles within our team:

• The first is to satisfy the above criteria

• The second opening will need the main skills above with additional experience with modern graphics APIs (Vulkan preferred), GPU Optimization.

• The third will need the main skills above with additional experience working with game engine internals,  or game development experience.

Nice to have:

• Experience with low-level hardware optimization

• Experience with game development, media processing, and/or networking

• Experience developing for game consoles

• Experience working with embedded systems and/or microcontrollers 

• Experience with devops and/or containerization

• Experience with cloud gaming infrastructure

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

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 based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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