Netflix · 2 days ago
Systems Development Engineer L5
California, United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$100K/yr - $700K/yr
6+ years expNetflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries. The role of Senior Systems Development Engineer involves designing, developing, and deploying scalable technical solutions to support Netflix’s content creation businesses, collaborating with various internal and external teams.
Digital EntertainmentMedia and EntertainmentTVVideo Streaming
Responsibilities
Design, implement and support the services and solutions that improve the experience and productivity for a broad range of creative content domains (e.g. post-production, animation, visual effects, genAI, virtual production)
Work at a scale where your deployments will have a wide-reaching impact, across multiple studios, supporting distributed teams in multiple regions
Design, automate, and develop solutions to enhance the efficiency and resiliency of our systems and services by taking into account hybrid environments and planning for them
Maintain and extend internal tooling and automation, including configuration management and service based infrastructure management
Participate in system and infrastructure updates and migrations, including on-call rotation, as well as troubleshooting tasks to maintain system resiliency and performance
Qualification
Required
You have a minimum of 6 years of experience in developing, automating and deploying complex systems to deliver technology solutions to end-users
You are able to distill and understand large, complex systems into their most critical components and understand the value each brings to the overall solution, spanning from hardware-level to software architectures
You have a passion for automation, efficiency, and scalability, consistently driving operational excellence
You excel at identifying high-leverage, high-value opportunities and focus your attention on them independently
You enjoy and can effectively work collaboratively with business and product teams to develop product plans and roadmaps and then are able to lead the hands-on implementation of those plans
You use data-driven decision making, applying thorough analytics and real-time insights for strategic and operational decisions
Broad experience deploying configuration management across multiple platforms (Linux, Windows, macOS) with disparate methodologies
Preferred
Experience in VFX, animation, or a similar creative services industry
Company
Netflix
Netflix is an online streaming platform that enables users to watch TV shows and movies.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$63.91BKey Investors
Wells FargoTCVGroupe Arnault
2025-12-05Post Ipo Debt· $59B
2024-08-01Post Ipo Debt· $1.8B
2018-05-05Post Ipo Debt· $2.67M
Leadership Team
Gregory Peters
Co-CEO
Ted Sarandos
Co-CEO
Recent News
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