Netflix

Software Engineer (L5/6) - Infrastructure Management

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1 day ago
Los Gatos, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$499k - $900k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Scale Netflix developer platforms from early adoption to broad usage through product decisions and cross-company partnerships.
  • Own the end-to-end Netflix Cloud developer experience across the software development lifecycle.
  • Build and operate Tier-0 control planes with accountability for reliability, scalability, and cost.
  • Build sandboxing, identity, governance, and shared human/agent interfaces for safe AI-agent interaction with infrastructure.
  • Define platform defaults, provider guarantees, self-service boundaries, and guardrails.

Requirements

  • Experience owning and scaling a developer platform in production.
  • Strong product judgment focused on customer goals and adoption constraints.
  • Ability to set direction and iterate effectively in ambiguous environments.
  • Comfort working in multi-language, multi-service codebases using Java, Kotlin, Go, or equivalent technologies.
  • Strong distributed-systems fundamentals, including race conditions, signal synchronization, and control-plane design, supported by experience handling failures.

Benefits

  • Annual salary plus the option to choose the mix of salary and stock options; the posting states there are 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 programs and flexible time off for full-time salaried employees.
  • Netflix provides accommodation support during the hiring process and is an equal-opportunity employer.

Tech Stack

GoJavaKotlinSpinnaker

Categories

Netflix

About Netflix

10,000+ employees

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).

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