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Software Engineer L5 – Media Foundations
| Company | Netflix |
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| Location | United States |
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| Salary | $100000 – $720000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Experience designing and implementing large-scale, resilient distributed systems using microservice architecture patterns, service orchestration and cloud-native development principles.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, containerization and deployment automation (AWS, Kubernetes, or similar technologies).
- In-depth experience with multimedia compression, delivery, playback or processing systems and familiarity with formats such as ISO-BMFF/MP4, AVC/H.264, HEVC/H.265, IMF, TTML, OTIO or similar media standards.
- Strong judgment, creativity and autonomy in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop highly scalable, cloud microservices that inspect and process media streams, files and camera rolls.
- Build robust service orchestration and workflow management systems for complex media processing pipelines.
- Define and implement efficient data models and persistence strategies for media metadata and analysis results.
- Create clean, well-documented APIs and service interfaces.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with content operations, streaming client engineering and infrastructure teams to deliver novel features and new experiences to millions of active devices worldwide.
- Have opportunities to participate in industry standards forums and open-source projects, helping to shape not just Netflix’s infrastructure, but the future of media technology globally.
- Take ownership of code quality and end-to-end testing, advocating for best practices and continuous improvement within the team.
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
- Deep backend engineering experience, ideally building fault-tolerant, high-throughput services.
- A strong systems design mindset, with the ability to simplify workflows and decompose complex problems.
- Comfort working in ambiguous environments, with ownership and autonomy to define architecture and drive delivery.
- Bonus points for candidates who bring exposure to media formats or workflows, but our current team has deep media domain expertise — so we’re prioritizing candidates who complement that with scalable systems thinking.
- A passion for impact: your work will shape the future of how Netflix processes and delivers content to the world.
