3 days ago
Base Salary
$250k - $413k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship playback foundational capabilities across TV and Web Player clients.
- Develop Live and Ads playback features and support innovative streaming experiences.
- Design and run A/B experiments, analyze results, and use data to guide feature and streaming decisions.
- Improve QoE metrics including startup time, rebuffering, and error rates by diagnosing issues across players, devices, networks, and backend systems.
- Extend player functionality to memory-constrained, low-power TV devices and a broad range of browsers.
- Collaborate with UI, Encoding, Streaming Algorithms, Security, Open Connect, and device partner teams.
- Contribute to continuous integration, test automation, and video player release management.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of software development experience with streaming media playback or software managing audio and video playback on devices.
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js; C++ experience is a plus.
- Understanding of adaptive streaming technologies including MPEG-DASH, HTML5 MSE, and EME.
- Experience designing experiments, analyzing data, and improving streaming quality based on results.
- Experience developing software for embedded devices such as Smart TVs, set-top boxes, or streaming sticks.
- Experience optimizing software for memory-constrained hardware.
- Familiarity with HTTP, TCP, UDP, and WebSockets is preferred.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration abilities.
Benefits
- Annual salary range of $250,000.00-$413,000.00, with compensation also available through stock options.
- 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 programs; full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off.
- Netflix is an equal-opportunity employer and provides interview accommodations for disabilities or other reasons.
Tech Stack
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).