Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 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 Creative Compute and Storage team designs, develops, and delivers technology infrastructure globally for the evolving needs of our creatives. As we continue to expand our content creation globally, we are looking for the best and brightest engineering talent to be part of our growth.
Our team is looking for a Senior Systems Development Engineer to be part of the development and build-out of our purposefully developed infrastructure platforms. You will work with internal engineering teams, technical creatives, production teams, and external vendors around the world to deliver amazing technology experiences for our creative users. We are looking for an experienced engineer who brings a broad set of technical skills and achievements, a development and automation-focused mindset to solving problems, and unique career and life experiences to join our teams as we continue to evolve entertainment around the world.
Be sure to review our culture page and long-term view to learn more about the unique Netflix culture and the opportunity to be part of our team.
As a member of the team, you will...Work with a broad group of engineering teams, internal and external partners, and creative teams to design, develop, implement, and support a broad collection of technology solutions for content creation at Netflix.
Design and build services to improve experiences and productivity for a broad range of content creative populations (e.g. post-production, animation, visual effects, etc.).
Work in a uniquely challenging global infrastructure space with challenges far larger than almost any other studio in the world.
Be empowered to build and develop new solutions to long-standing entertainment industry challenges.
Entrusted for developing, scripting, and automating solutions to improve the efficiency and functionality of our production systems. This includes deploying these solutions and ensuring their successful integration within the existing system architecture.
Participate in system upgrades and migrations, as well as troubleshooting tasks to maintain optimal system performance. The candidate should be able to identify potential issues, develop effective solutions, and implement them to ensure system reliability and stability.
You have a minimum of 5 years of experience in building and developing compute, storage, and connectivity tooling to deliver product experiences for end-users.
You are able to dissect large complex systems into sub-components, understanding each component’s additive value to the overall solution and able to optimize them both individually and collectively.
You have a passion for automation, efficiency and scale; consistently driving operational excellence.
You have a deep technical understanding of large-scale computing infrastructure; operating systems; high-performance storage file, block, and object storage technologies; scaled networking challenges; or any of the above.
You enjoy and can effectively work collaboratively with business and product teams to develop product plans and roadmaps and then are able to own parts of the hands-on implementation of those plans.
You thrive in identifying high-leverage, high-value work and direct your attention to those opportunities without explicit direction
You aim to always be learning new things, working in new spaces, and share this passion with those around you
You use data-driven strategies, applying thorough analytics and real-time insights for strategic and operational decisions.
You strongly uphold observability principles, promoting transparent, measurable outcomes to improve performance and accountability in all projects.
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 $100K - $720K.
Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner
Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.
We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity 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.
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Netflix is the world's leading streaming entertainment service with 209 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on any internet-connected screen. Members can play, pause and resume watching, all without commercials or commitments.
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