Software Development Engineer in Test 5, TV & Web Player - Developer Experience & Release Quality
Netflix3 days ago
Base Salary
$266k - $442k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end and functional test strategy for new TV and web player features, including scenarios, release gates, test streams, test data, and upstream dependencies.
- Build and maintain automated feature and performance tests across representative TV devices, measuring playback startup time, rebuffering, memory, CPU, and frame rate.
- Develop test frameworks, harnesses, reusable tooling, test-stream utilities, and reliable services for repeatable test data.
- Improve test automation development using AI-assisted approaches, and collaborate with Netflix test and developer tools teams on workflow capabilities and roadmaps.
- Track coverage, escaped defects, flake rate, performance baselines, runtime, and known issues to prioritize improvements and retire low-value tests.
- Integrate automated tests with build systems and CI/CD pipelines as reliable quality gates.
- Support release and live-event readiness by communicating quality, performance, and reliability risks and participating in player-release on-call rotations.
- Monitor A/B test variants and metrics to validate playback quality and client stability before production rollouts.
Requirements
- Deep experience ensuring the quality of consumer web or device applications at scale.
- Highly proficient in JavaScript and TypeScript, with the ability to build test frameworks, harnesses, and tooling from the ground up.
- Experience improving how teams write tests and applying AI tooling to test generation, failure triage, flakiness analysis, or coverage gaps.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, or GitHub Actions, including pipeline debugging.
- Understanding of streaming concepts including adaptive bitrate streaming, DRM, codecs, and browser media APIs such as MSE and EME.
- Experience testing browser and TV-device diversity and validating consistent playback and performance across device generations.
- Experience with performance testing and profiling of client applications, preferably on resource-constrained devices, with stable and repeatable measurements.
- Analytical, data-driven root-cause analysis skills across client, network, and backend interactions.
- Exposure to A/B testing or experimentation workflows.
- Clear communication and cross-functional collaboration skills with engineering, test, release, product, and data science teams.
Benefits
- Work side by side with the team and partners in Los Gatos.
- Comprehensive health plans, mental health support, 401(k) retirement plan with employer match, stock option program, disability programs, health savings and flexible spending accounts, family-forming benefits, and life and serious injury benefits.
- Strong parental leave, family-forming benefits, and paid leave programs.
- Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off.
- The team values selflessness, inclusion, candor, and collaboration.
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About Netflix
Netflix builds and operates a global streaming service for TV series, films, games, and live programming, and produces original content through its in-house studio. It serves consumers in 190+ countries via subscription and ad-supported plans on internet-connected devices. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Los Gatos, California, Netflix is a public company traded on NASDAQ (NFLX).