Software Engineer L6 - Platform Engineering

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.

The Media Infrastructure Platform team (MIP) provides foundational infrastructure services to other engineering teams at Netflix. We create solutions with high leverage that multiply the productivity of other teams. Our platforms act as an enabler for media processing teams. 

One of our main products is Stratum, a large-scale, next-generation serverless function platform designed to handle media-specific computational tasks. Stratum is the foundation of the Cosmos platform for media processing. Our team’s products are critical to Netflix— every video in the Netflix catalog has been processed by Stratum or one of its predecessors. Stratum is the primary compute platform for most engineers at Netflix in the media processing space. Stratum uses another complementary product that we develop, MezzFS, a FUSE based solution for efficiently accessing large files in S3.  We also develop Nirvana, an observability solution for media processing workloads that run on top of Stratum.  Due to MIP’s high scale, the impact of even minor improvements to the efficiency or developer experience of our products is enormous.

MIP is part of a media-focused engineering group that provides highly available infrastructure for content production and processing across all Netflix productions and licensed content. Infrastructure pieces like massive-scale media processing platforms (1, 2), workflows (Conductor), media asset management, collaboration, reporting, data movement, and data processing are some of the key services we build. All of this is custom-built on top of Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure.

About the role

As an L6 engineer on MIP you will help us build and grow innovative solutions in the media compute space. You’ll work on resource scheduling in a distributed polyglot compute platform running at massive scale. You’ll gain exposure to building observable, efficient, highly available and fault tolerant systems. In this role you will have the opportunity to drive direction, own development end-to-end, manage stakeholder relationships, provide actionable feedback and insights to colleagues, and create technical solutions at scale.

Specifically, this role will be a part of the Cosmos Compute team within MIP that builds Stratum, our high scale, serverless media processing compute system.

About You

• You are self-motivated and can work independently. You can also partner closely with other engineers on a project.

• You are passionate about building quality products and want to own development and operations end-to-end, leading with the right architecture, and following sound engineering principles to deliver maintainable, performant, and predictable experience.

• You are a problem solver and like to challenge yourself, but you are not afraid to reach out when you need help, and enjoy helping other engineers.

Experience

• Strong experience leading engineering efforts: You should be able to work with other engineers on the team to lead large, impactful technical initiatives that may span multiple teams and orgs. This includes putting together designs, pushing the project forward to make progress, working with your manager to highlight and overcome roadblocks, and rallying your fellow engineers around the work

• Strong background in distributed systems - The majority of your time on the team will be spent working on Stratum and related se