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Netflix is one of the world’s leading entertainment services with 283 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

In the role of a Backend Software Engineer, you’ll have a direct impact on our business users and consumers by building products that allow us to manage our global entertainment catalog, as well as our next generation off-service experiences. This includes workflows such as:

• Tagging content with its genre, characters, storyline, and many other dimensions
• Managing our maturity ratings and advisories for all titles across all countries and territories
• Designing, launching and promoting thrilling immersive experiences that captivate fans across the globe.
• Creating captivating editorial content that invites fans to explore and connect more deeply with their favorite Netflix titles.

We need your help to build the technologies that allow us to scale our efforts across the globe, and do so effectively and efficiently!

Your Day-to-Day:

• Work cross-functionally to build, test, deploy, and launch backend services that operationalize our workflows at scale.
• Participate in product reviews and team meetings, providing technical insight. Help scope, estimate, and prioritize between conflicting needs.
• Evaluate new technologies and approaches to streamline and improve our rapid application development tooling and conventions.
• Regularly learn and influence new systems and tools as the Netflix platform and ecosystem evolve.
• Participate in our on-call rotation and lead the incident reviews.
• Effectively communicate complex technical issues and solutions to stakeholders
• Live company values, actively engage in team discussions and provide mentorship while holding the team accountable for collective standards.

You will enjoy working with us if you:

• Are passionate about building robust and scalable backend systems, working closely with UI engineers, UX designers, and product managers to deliver reliable and performant services that meet user needs.
• Love brainstorming with fellow backend and UI engineers, product designers, product managers, and directly with our users, to understand what they want, figure out what they really need, and finally, what we should build.
• Eager to identify business opportunities that positively impact the organization's bottom line.
• Enjoy working closely with business users to understand their needs, and how best to solve them.
• Strive to embrace best practices and are always searching for opportunities to continually improve.
• Are selfless and willing to flex across the stack or into a new domain to help a teammate when needed, never thinking “that’s someone else’s job”.

We would love to work with you if you:

• Have experience architecting, building, and operating resilient, high-scale, low-latency microservices in production environments, with a proven track record of ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and performance.
• Are proficient with gRPC, GraphQL, or RESTful API design and implementation.
• Have recent proficient experience with Java, C#, or other OO programming languages with a solid understanding of OO design principles, concurrency, multi-threading, performance tuning, and observability.
• Have the ability to proactively describe complex technical concepts to a variety of stakeholders, driving conversations and decisions through written and/or verbal communication.
• Participate in our on-call rotation and lead the incident reviews.
• Have a strong sense of ownership, independence, bias towards action, and inclination for collaboration. We live by our values, learn more about our unique culture here.
• Are able to recognize, communicate, address and lead the technical improvements as part of the roadmap
• Are passionate about performance, observability and developer experience tools.

Our culture is unique, and we live by our values, so it’s worth learning more about Netflix culture.

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.