Full Stack Software Engineer, L5 - Growth Delivery and Operations

Netflix

Netflix

Software Engineering, Sales & Business Development, Operations
United States · Remote
Posted on Nov 15, 2024

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

Growth Engineering at Netflix is responsible for driving the continued growth of Netflix’s subscriber base and increasing the value we derive from each member. Our work helps users to discover and sign up for Netflix, and maintain their Netflix service. We participate on cross-functional teams focused on acquisition, retention, plans and pricing, user identity, customer support, and more, and provide foundational systems powering all billing, payments processing, and the consumer web application platform at Netflix.

We are part of a global, diverse organization that includes people of all genders, sexual orientations, upbringings, nationalities, ages, and socioeconomic & educational backgrounds. We encourage anyone passionate about operational excellence to apply.

About the team:

Our goal is to provide operational excellence and smooth developer experience across Growth Engineering by implementing

  • Optimized processes at every stage of CI/CD, enabling us to deliver high-quality products to our customers frequently and smoothly

  • Fully automated deployments from commit to production deployment

  • A robust testing strategy that covers various aspects of SDLC

  • Tooling for smooth developer experience

  • Improve developer productivity by finding gaps and building reliable and scalable solutions

  • Comprehensive observability of consumer-facing applications that encompasses monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing and analyzing


Our team embodies values that promote collaboration, team work, efficiency, continuous improvement and mutual support. We live by our Netflix Values. The team self-manages and prioritizes their time, energy, and resources. We set and implement our roadmap. The team is remote friendly. While a few members are based in Los Gatos, CA, others work remotely.

Who you are:

  • 6+ years of professional experience building and advocating strong CI/CD strategies

  • Proficient with Javascript/ Typescript

  • Experience running and operating continuous integration systems like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI and others

  • Experience defining a testing strategy in partnership with other cross functional partners to build reliable systems

  • Passionate about solving developer productivity challenges for engineers. Support team members and partners to boost productivity

  • Proven ability to lead projects and communicate with cross-functional partners effectively

  • Work closely with product-focused developers to identify gaps

What sets you apart:

  • Operational Excellence Champion who can act as a multiplier for our team and our partners

  • Self-starter comfortable with identifying opportunities, proactively defining & driving forward-looking roadmaps. Strong sense of ownership in the tools and technology you build

  • Deep understanding of automation tools and frameworks

  • Build strong Chaos principles to establish clear failure modes/latency/fallback behaviors of our services. Checkout our Chaos Engineering tech blog here

  • Experience with JS/TS. Would be nice to have knowledge on Java as we support Full stack development

  • Guide the roadmaps of Infrastructure teams according to the specific needs and requirements of product-focused team members

  • You strive to elevate the knowledge and skills of yourself and others in a way that fosters an inclusive, collaborative environment. Deeply enjoy working on solutions that empower other engineers in their work

  • Thrive in an ambiguous environment and can self-manage and self-prioritize your time, energy, and resources

  • Understand engineering is a team sport and actively farm for feedback and dissent

Meet the Team

Deepa Padmanabhan - Senior Software Engineer

Kranthi Challa - Senior Software Engineer

Matthew Hardin - Senior Software Engineer

Omar El-Kishky - Software engineer

Prajakta Shitole - Manager

Benefits & Pay

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $100,000 - $720,000.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including 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. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more details about our Benefits here.


Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.

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.

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.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.