Software Engineer 5 - Content & Business Products

At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. Together, we are writing the next episode - pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom and making the unimaginable a reality. We are a dream team obsessed with the uncomfortable excitement of discovering what happens when you merge creativity, intuition and cutting-edge technology. Come be a part of what’s next.

At Netflix, we want to entertain the world and are constantly innovating on how entertainment is imagined, created, and delivered to a global audience. Engineering teams within Netflix work hard every day to scale and innovate content production and member experiences in an ever-growing complex software landscape.  

Our Content & Business Products (CBP) Engineering teams build the products and services to optimize and automate the content creation process including content planning, financing, production, promotion, and distribution. We support Netflix's enterprise needs including Finance, Talent, Tech Support, and Customer Support to ensure smooth operations. 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. The team’s work is critical to supporting the creation of movies and TV series that will thrill the world!

Qualifications

• You have 5+ years of experience crafting resilient, high-scale, low-latency, distributed microservices in production environments.

• Proficient with gRPC, GraphQL, or RESTful API design and implementation.

• Have recent proficient experience with Java, C#, or other OO programming languages with a solid understanding of OO design principles, concurrency, multi-threading, performance tuning, and observability.

• Have a proven track record in architecting, building, and operating distributed systems with high availability, fault tolerance, and performance.

• Have solid experience in setting technical directions for engineering projects, making architectural decisions, and influencing partner and cross-functional teams.

• Have the ability to proactively describe complex technical concepts to a variety of stakeholders, driving conversations and decisions through written and/or verbal communication.

• Participate in our on-call rotation and lead the incident reviews.

What Sets You Apart

• Curious about a broad range of new or unfamiliar technologies, the consumer base, and product vision.

• Seek different perspectives, feedback, and relevant information to continuously grow and improve.

• Maintain strong relationships with cross-functional teams through clear communication.

• Take a thoughtful, practical approach to problem-solving that considers tradeoffs and avoids over-engineering.

• Comfortable asking questions and seeking knowledge in unfamiliar or ambiguous situations.

• Endeavor to elevate the knowledge, skills, and abilities of yourself and others that are conducive to fostering an inclusive, collaborative environment.

Spotlight on CBP Engineering Teams:

Title Launch Management (TLM)
TLM builds and innovates the technology foundations of the title experience that allows us to understand, organize, and launch titles globally at scale. We are the bridge between the title creation lifecycle and the consumer experience. Titles refer to any type of entertainment we launch on Netflix including series & movies, games, ads, live events, trailers, promotional videos, and more.

Content Finance Core (CFC)

The Content Finance Core (CFC) Engineering team builds the core infrastructure that powers Netflix’s financial decision-making for our global content library. The work we do is at the intersection of finance and high-scale engineering.  Our team doesn't just build services; we build the standards and infrastructure that multiple engineering teams across the Finance domains rely on to power their own products. Our team’s mission is to provide a standardized, immutable, and highly-available repository of financial data that enables Netflix to track, allocate, and analyze the cost of producing world-class content at global scale.

A few more things about us:

As a team, we come from many different countries and our fields of education range from the humanities to engineering to computer science. Our team includes product managers, program managers, designers, full-stack developers, distributed systems engineers, and data scientists. Folks have th