Software Engineer - Content Lifecycle Engineering (L5, Backend)

At Netflix, our mission is to Entertain the World. We deliver billions of hours of movies and TV shows per month to more than 247 million members in over 190 countries. Content Engineering builds the products and services used by our internal and external partners to create, launch, and promote our global content. 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.
You'll have a direct impact on how the Netflix studio creates and promotes shows and with an increasing slate of original content being produced every year, our products manage billions of dollars worth of content-spend. As an L5 backend engineer, you will lead the development of cross-functional projects that enable us to scale our efforts across the globe.

Your Day-to-Day

• Lead cross-functional projects to build new services, tools and data models to operationalize our workflows at scale.
• Lead small teams of engineers to implement new technologies and approaches to streamline and improve our rapid application development tooling and conventions.
• Participate in product reviews and team meetings, providing technical insight and perspective to your cross functional partners. You will scope, estimate, and prioritize between conflicting needs.
• Regularly learn new systems and tools as the Netflix platform and ecosystem evolves, and bring these learnings back to your team to improve our paved path adoption.
• Participate in our on-call rotation and contribute to incident reviews.

You may enjoy working with us if you:

• Are curious about product experiences and motivated to understand how our work impacts our users.
• Love brainstorming with fellow Backend and UI engineers, product designers, product managers, and directly with our users, to understand what they want, figure out what they really need, and finally, what we should build.
• Can deliver top-tier solutions with minimal guidance. You also recognize when you're wrong, learning from your mistakes and moving past them.
• Are selfless and willing to flex across the stack or into a new domain to help a teammate when needed, never thinking “that’s someone else’s job”.
• Strive to embrace best practices and are always searching for opportunities to continually improve.

We would love to work with you if you:

• Are adept at building applications with an Object Oriented language. We work with Java primarily, so an interest in learning and coding in Java is desirable.
• Excel in developing microservice based distributed systems with high availability, throughput, fault tolerance, and performance.
• Are experienced in utilizing relational and non-relational data stores.
• Have a strong sense of independence, bias towards action, and inclination for collaboration. We live by our values, learn more about our unique culture here.

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, 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  $100,000 - $700,000
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.