Netflix

Full Stack Software Engineer 5 - Eventing & Communications Platform

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18 days ago
Remote, United States or Los Angeles, CA, USAStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$388k - $558k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate robust, scalable, highly available eventing and communications platform products.
  • Develop frontend widgets, embeddable UI components, backend services, APIs, and real-time asynchronous systems.
  • Architect microservices and transform business needs into extensible technical designs.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives with design, product, engineering, and technical program management partners.
  • Drive delivery from ambiguous goals through launched and operable products while managing scope, tradeoffs, and dependencies.
  • Own production operations through incident response, post-incident reviews, reliability improvements, observability, and on-call enhancements.
  • Mentor engineers, support career development, and help build technical communities.
  • Advocate for high-quality code, engineering best practices, reusable patterns, and strong developer experience.

Requirements

  • Proficiency architecting and developing highly leveraged platforms across the full software stack.
  • Backend expertise designing microservices, data structures, and APIs with Java, C#, or comparable object-oriented languages.
  • Recent hands-on experience building complex user interfaces with HTML, JavaScript/TypeScript, and CSS, including exposure to React and modern frontend architecture.
  • Experience with component design, state management, frontend performance optimization, and UI/UX quality.
  • Experience leading cross-functional initiatives, balancing tradeoffs, orchestrating dependencies, and driving delivery.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical and business concepts through clear writing, design documents, reviews, and stakeholder alignment.
  • Track record of operational ownership, incident response, post-incident reviews, reliability, observability, and on-call improvements.
  • Ability to define crisp problems, exercise technical judgment, influence and mentor others, apply a product mindset, and own outcomes through production.
  • Preferred experience with messaging buses, asynchronous data processing, workflow orchestration, partitioning, idempotency, backpressure, and distributed tracing.
  • Experience proactively using AI to accelerate prototyping, decision-making, and team processes is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Open to remote candidates anywhere in the U.S.
  • Annual salary compensation structure with the option to choose the mix of salary and stock options; no bonuses.
  • Health plans, mental health support, a 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.
  • Paid leave of absence programs; full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off, while full-time salaried employees receive flexible time off immediately.
  • Disability and interview-process accommodations are available upon request.

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Netflix

About Netflix

10,000+ employees

Netflix is one of the world’s leading entertainment services offering TV series, films, games and live programming 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.

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