Software Engineer (L6) - Cloud Infra Abstractions

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 Us

Netflix has been on the leading edge of the cloud since beginning the migration to AWS 15 years ago and runs one of the largest Cloud footprints around. The Cloud Engineering organization exists to manage that massive scale, constantly innovating to increase fleet-wide agility, efficiency, and reliability of the Netflix cloud infrastructure, while solving scale problems that we are the first to ever hit. We build, operate, and maintain Compute, Network, and Storage services so that developers at Netflix can rely on foundational building blocks when entertaining hundreds of millions of customers around the world. Join us as we push the boundaries of performance and resilience, empowering developers to create groundbreaking applications on a reliable platform.

About You

We are looking for a highly experienced, collaborative technical lead to drive our charter, guide engineering work for the team, and break new ground with hands-on innovation on the hardest technical challenges. You will lead the delivery of products and services that make it incredibly simple for thousands of engineers to do things like deliver millions of hours of encoded video globally. Ultimately, the products you build will reduce cognitive load and improve configuration safety through standardized guardrail-based defaults for all engineers across Netflix. You have a passion for user experience and enjoy bringing together engineers from different teams to build a unified cloud infrastructure offering for your customers. 

***We have TWO (2) Positions open in the following teams***

1. Compute Abstractions

Netflix’s Compute organization owns our internet-scale cloud footprint. We constantly innovate to increase fleet-wide agility, efficiency, and reliability of this infrastructure. We build, operate, and maintain Compute services so that Netflix developers can rely on foundational building blocks that enable a “set it and forget it” approach to achieving scalability and cost efficiency. Join us as we push the boundaries of performance and resilience, empowering developers to create groundbreaking applications on a reliable platform.

In Compute Abstractions, we believe getting up and running in the cloud quickly should be the easiest step to getting your service running in the cloud. To help our internal customers do this, we offer APIs and managed configurations on our compute platform, Titus, that abstract away compute resource complexity and scaling responsiveness. We see the future as one where our customers can rely on industry-leading, scalable, right-sized, and optimized compute without the need to know anything about where or on what their workloads run. 

2. Network Services & Insights

There are several core cloud networking teams that provide edge proxies, service-to-service communication within the mid-tier (mesh, discovery), and lower-level cloud network functionality to Netflix. Network Services & Insights (NSI) is the team positioned to build cross-functional, high-level Networking abstractions for all of the cloud networking, tying together offerings across all other teams into a higher-level, intent-based abstraction. In addition, NSI builds and maintains a number of high-scale distributed systems ingesting network metadata from each compute workload at Netflix and offers insights services that allow users to look up IP <>application instance mappings or service connectivity maps. Those systems significantly improve time to mitigate & resolve network-related issues experienced by developers.

This unified experience allows us to manage more for the Netflix developer over time, meaning our internal customers can “set it and forget it” while we take care of the network infrastructure evolution. This creates an opportunity to significantly increase engineering efficiency and velocity across all Netflix engineering and put us in a better position to rapidly adjust to new Product Area needs (Gaming, frequent M&A, Live, etc.).

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What You Will Do:

• Work closely with Product Owners and Customers to design experiences that anticipate customers' needs before they do and make internet-scale engineering easy.

• Lead the design of products & services that abstra