Netflix
Full Stack Software Engineer (L5), Media Infrastructure Platform
Netflix, Los Gatos, California, United States, 95032
Netflix is one of the world’s leading entertainment services with 278 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 Role
Background on the Team:
The Media Infrastructure Platform team is part of a media-focused engineering group which provides highly available infrastructure for content production and processing, storage and access, across all Netflix productions and licensed content. Infrastructure pieces like massive scale media processing platforms ( 1 (https://netflixtechblog.com/simplifying-media-innovation-at-netflix-with-archer-3f8cbb0e2bcb) , 2 (https://netflixtechblog.com/high-quality-video-encoding-at-scale-d159db052746) ), workflows ( Conductor (https://github.com/Netflix/conductor) ), media asset management, collaboration, reporting, data movement (https://netflixtechblog.com/data-movement-in-netflix-studio-via-data-mesh-3fddcceb1059) , 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.
The Cosmos platform (https://netflixtechblog.com/the-netflix-cosmos-platform-35c14d9351ad) is Netflix’s media processing platform. We enable innovation from experiment to productization in the media processing domain and provide an industry-leading path for quantifiably reliable, efficient, scalable, easy to use, easy to operate media processing solutions. Our platforms act as an enabler for media processing teams. Our team’s platform is critical to Netflix— every video in the Netflix catalog has been processed by Cosmos or one of its predecessors.
The Cosmos Platform Team is composed of three pods of engineers: Compute, Workflow and Insights & Experiences. Each pod has a discrete charter that supports the platform’s overall mission and has a high degree of autonomy while collaborating tightly with the other pods. The Insights and Experiences Pod within the Cosmos Platform team is responsible for cross-cutting experiences and user interfaces for the platform. The team owns a number of key services and experiences, including the following:
Nirvana, a bespoke observability solution for Cosmos with a user interface that is tailored to the unique needs of Cosmos as a high scale media processing platform
Various backend observability components that collect data about media processing workloads to surface insights in Nirvana
Business insights and cost analysis dashboards and the data pipelines that power them
The continuous delivery experience for our users, including the testing framework for Cosmos services that coordinates and orchestrates the end to end tests for service owners.
The Insights and Experiences pod also leads the engineering-driven product management effort for the platform. This gives the engineers on the pod a holistic view of the platform and its users needs and uniquely positions them to influence the direction of the platform as whole.
About the role
As an engineer on the MIP Cosmos Insights and Experience pod, you will help us build and grow innovative solutions in the media processing space. You’ll work on improving the developer experience of the platform. You’ll optimize the information architecture of our existing interfaces. You’ll work full stack, delivering both frontend code and backend APIs to power your feature, allowing you to make optimal decisions across the stack. You’ll uncover user needs and build simple and highly usable experiences to address these needs.
About You
You are a strong full stack engineer with strong software engineering fundamentals, and aren’t afraid to build the full frontend and backend of a feature.
You are self-motivated and can work independently, while also being able to partner closely with other engineers on a project. You are passionate about building quality products and want to own development end-to-end, leading with the right architecture, and following sound engineering principles to deliver a maintainable, performant and highly usable 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.
You are able to develop, test and implement features end to end. You consider the backend APIs that you’ll be consuming or implementing, the structure of the underlying data stores, and can drive a holistic design for a feature end-to-end, from frontend JS and CSS to new backend APIs in Node/Typescript or Java.
Required Skills
Proven experience as a full stack engineer with an emphasis on troubleshooting, pragmatic problem solving, and using industry-standard technologies
Javascript/Typescript experience
Experience in a modern frontend framework such as React or Vue (React is preferred)
Backend development experience; comfortable writing APIs
Experience or interest in API architecture and microservices
Strong data modeling skills, and ability to deal with complex data
Strong architectural skills, ability to produce scalable, maintainable solutions
Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with users and stakeholders
You derive satisfaction from enabling other teams and engineers to be successful
Nice to haves
Java experience
Experience with observability tooling
Experience building platforms or user interfaces for developers
Familiarity with batch processing systems
Familiarity with serverless compute paradigms
Familiarity with GraphQL
Exposure to a workflow and/or rules-engine system
We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
The Role
Background on the Team:
The Media Infrastructure Platform team is part of a media-focused engineering group which provides highly available infrastructure for content production and processing, storage and access, across all Netflix productions and licensed content. Infrastructure pieces like massive scale media processing platforms ( 1 (https://netflixtechblog.com/simplifying-media-innovation-at-netflix-with-archer-3f8cbb0e2bcb) , 2 (https://netflixtechblog.com/high-quality-video-encoding-at-scale-d159db052746) ), workflows ( Conductor (https://github.com/Netflix/conductor) ), media asset management, collaboration, reporting, data movement (https://netflixtechblog.com/data-movement-in-netflix-studio-via-data-mesh-3fddcceb1059) , 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.
The Cosmos platform (https://netflixtechblog.com/the-netflix-cosmos-platform-35c14d9351ad) is Netflix’s media processing platform. We enable innovation from experiment to productization in the media processing domain and provide an industry-leading path for quantifiably reliable, efficient, scalable, easy to use, easy to operate media processing solutions. Our platforms act as an enabler for media processing teams. Our team’s platform is critical to Netflix— every video in the Netflix catalog has been processed by Cosmos or one of its predecessors.
The Cosmos Platform Team is composed of three pods of engineers: Compute, Workflow and Insights & Experiences. Each pod has a discrete charter that supports the platform’s overall mission and has a high degree of autonomy while collaborating tightly with the other pods. The Insights and Experiences Pod within the Cosmos Platform team is responsible for cross-cutting experiences and user interfaces for the platform. The team owns a number of key services and experiences, including the following:
Nirvana, a bespoke observability solution for Cosmos with a user interface that is tailored to the unique needs of Cosmos as a high scale media processing platform
Various backend observability components that collect data about media processing workloads to surface insights in Nirvana
Business insights and cost analysis dashboards and the data pipelines that power them
The continuous delivery experience for our users, including the testing framework for Cosmos services that coordinates and orchestrates the end to end tests for service owners.
The Insights and Experiences pod also leads the engineering-driven product management effort for the platform. This gives the engineers on the pod a holistic view of the platform and its users needs and uniquely positions them to influence the direction of the platform as whole.
About the role
As an engineer on the MIP Cosmos Insights and Experience pod, you will help us build and grow innovative solutions in the media processing space. You’ll work on improving the developer experience of the platform. You’ll optimize the information architecture of our existing interfaces. You’ll work full stack, delivering both frontend code and backend APIs to power your feature, allowing you to make optimal decisions across the stack. You’ll uncover user needs and build simple and highly usable experiences to address these needs.
About You
You are a strong full stack engineer with strong software engineering fundamentals, and aren’t afraid to build the full frontend and backend of a feature.
You are self-motivated and can work independently, while also being able to partner closely with other engineers on a project. You are passionate about building quality products and want to own development end-to-end, leading with the right architecture, and following sound engineering principles to deliver a maintainable, performant and highly usable 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.
You are able to develop, test and implement features end to end. You consider the backend APIs that you’ll be consuming or implementing, the structure of the underlying data stores, and can drive a holistic design for a feature end-to-end, from frontend JS and CSS to new backend APIs in Node/Typescript or Java.
Required Skills
Proven experience as a full stack engineer with an emphasis on troubleshooting, pragmatic problem solving, and using industry-standard technologies
Javascript/Typescript experience
Experience in a modern frontend framework such as React or Vue (React is preferred)
Backend development experience; comfortable writing APIs
Experience or interest in API architecture and microservices
Strong data modeling skills, and ability to deal with complex data
Strong architectural skills, ability to produce scalable, maintainable solutions
Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with users and stakeholders
You derive satisfaction from enabling other teams and engineers to be successful
Nice to haves
Java experience
Experience with observability tooling
Experience building platforms or user interfaces for developers
Familiarity with batch processing systems
Familiarity with serverless compute paradigms
Familiarity with GraphQL
Exposure to a workflow and/or rules-engine system
We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.