Full Stack Software Engineer (L5) - Delivery Engineering, Experiences

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.

Who we are
Delivery Engineering is the group within the Productivity Engineering org that is responsible for the continuous delivery of software and infrastructure changes across all Netflix services. We own the end-user software delivery experiences for Netflix engineers.

We work cross-functionally with partners across engineering to make working inside the Netflix engineering ecosystem more efficient and enjoyable for all. We focus on increasing productivity, minimizing toil, and increasing the frequency and safety of software deployments.

What you could work on
Our team is primarily responsible for the developer platforms that roll out software and infrastructure changes to the entire Netflix fleet. We do this through our Continuous Delivery (CD) system Spinnaker, and our higher level declarative delivery-based platform, Managed Delivery. We are working to converge these products into one cohesive Delivery experience. Some example goals for projects include:

• Improve the user experience across Spinnaker and Managed Delivery, allowing for users to get the benefits from both systems.

• Build a platform for our partner teams to build specific experiences tailored to their customers with ease.

• Increase the safety and ease of deployments by implementing safe by default and extendible deployment and verification patterns for our users.

What We’ll Expect From You
We are seeking a full stack engineer who is comfortable writing, improving, and maintaining critical services at our scale. Below are the specific behaviors and competencies important for this role.

Behaviors

• Mentorship mindset: You have helped grow early-career engineers. You feel a sense of fulfillment in mentoring them.

• Communicate: You are proficient in verbal and written mediums at explaining topics the audience was unfamiliar with.

• Collaborate: You enjoy collaborating with multiple teams and use your communication skills to influence product direction and keep stakeholders in the loop.

• Platform mindset: You have worked on infrastructure or platform teams where other engineers at the company were your customers.

• Provide and take feedback: Proficient at actively soliciting and providing feedback (technical, behavioral, instilling team norms). 

• Selfless: You seek what is best for Netflix and make time to help colleagues across the team succeed.

• Comfortable with ambiguity: You are curious and enjoy working on ambiguous problems where the solutions still need to be defined. You excel at cross-functional ownership and driving alignment to reach a decision, even when it is outside of your wheelhouse.

• A deep sense of ownership: You take deep ownership of your projects. Feel pride in delivering great work and pay attention to the details.

• Customer empathy:  A user-centric mindset, always considering the end-user experience.

Qualifications

• Ability to write code for both front-end and back-end

• Experienced with Java or other JVM languages and JavaScript (Angular or React)

• Able to break down complexity, iterate, and communicate progress to a wide variety of partners and stakeholders.

• Comfortable participating in an on-call rotation.

​Nice to Have:

• Have worked on a developer platform team where other engineers were your customers.

What to Expect From Us

• High Impact - your work will touch every engineer at the company and be crucial for the ongoing success of Netflix.

• Stunning Colleagues - you will be working with other excellent people with diverse perspectives, who value collaboration, working to excel as the “dream team”. 

• Energizing Challenges - there is a wealth of opportunity when working on complex technical projects and our culture both enables and encourages you to rise to the challenges.

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