Software Engineer 5 - Developer Infrastructure & Quality Platform

Netflix
United States
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 388,000 - 558,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Project ownership"]

Build and operate backend services and infrastructure for Netflix’s Test Automation Platform, enabling automated testing at scale. You’ll own core components for service deployment and delivery, work with platform datastores (Aurora, MongoDB, DocumentDB), and modernize infrastructure with observability, capacity, security, and paved paths. The role also focuses on reliability, performance/cost optimization, runbooks, resilience testing (load/failure/DR), and collaboration on storage/compute and ETL/data pipelines.

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Software Engineer 5 - Developer Infrastructure & Quality Platform

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Job Summary

Build and operate backend services and infrastructure for Netflix’s Test Automation Platform, enabling automated testing at scale. You’ll own core components for service deployment and delivery, work with platform datastores (Aurora, MongoDB, DocumentDB), and modernize infrastructure with observability, capacity, security, and paved paths. The role also focuses on reliability, performance/cost optimization, runbooks, resilience testing (load/failure/DR), and collaboration on storage/compute and ETL/data pipelines.
Location: United States
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and operate backend services and infrastructure powering the Test Automation platform.
  • •Evolve core infrastructure components such as service deployment and delivery and platform datastores (Aurora, MongoDB, DocumentDB).
  • •Modernize infrastructure using paved paths for observability, provisioning, capacity management, and security.
  • •Analyze and optimize critical systems (e.g., MongoDB) for capacity, performance, and cost, including sharding, upgrades, and data lifecycle strategies.
  • •Improve operational excellence with tuned metrics/alerts, dashboards, runbooks, and resilience initiatives like load testing, failure injection testing, and disaster recovery.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 388,000 - 558,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health Insurance401kEquityDisabilityLife InsurancePaid LeaveFlexible Time

Key Requirements

  • •Design, build, and operate backend services and infrastructure for a large-scale test automation platform with reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
  • •Own and evolve core infrastructure components, including service deployment and delivery and platform datastores (Aurora, MongoDB, DocumentDB).
  • •Standardize and modernize service infrastructure using paved paths for observability, provisioning, capacity management, and security.
  • •Optimize distributed systems for performance and reliability, including capacity/performance/cost work such as MongoDB sharding, upgrades, and data lifecycle strategies.
  • •Use at least one backend language (Java, Golang, C++, or TypeScript) and debug networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, HTTP, TCP, DNS).
Experience:Distributed systemsCloudBackend infrastructureTest automationCI/CDData pipelinesObservabilityReliability engineering
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProject ownership
Tech Stack:JavaGolangC++TypeScriptAWSGCPAzureMongoDBDocumentDBAuroraMongoDB shardingTCP/IPHTTPTCPDNSCI/CDLinux

Company Brief

Netflix
Global subscription streaming service that produces and distributes movies, TV series, and games across multiple devices, operating worldwide with extensive original content and localized offerings.
Industry: Streaming Platforms
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Los Gatos, United States
Founded: 1997
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