Software Engineer 5 - Content & Business Products

Netflix
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 388,000 - 558,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Technical direction","Architectural decision-making","Communication","Stakeholder management","Incident review leadership"]

Build and operate resilient, high-scale distributed systems that power Netflix’s Content & Business Products engineering teams. Work across teams delivering cloud-native pipelines for media workflows, AI-driven localization tooling, and core catalog foundations for recommendations and subscriber experiences. You’ll design and implement microservices, use gRPC/GraphQL/REST APIs, lead architectural decisions, participate in on-call, and drive incident reviews while improving performance, reliability, and observability.

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Netflix
2 years ago

Software Engineer 5 - Content & Business Products

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Job Summary

Build and operate resilient, high-scale distributed systems that power Netflix’s Content & Business Products engineering teams. Work across teams delivering cloud-native pipelines for media workflows, AI-driven localization tooling, and core catalog foundations for recommendations and subscriber experiences. You’ll design and implement microservices, use gRPC/GraphQL/REST APIs, lead architectural decisions, participate in on-call, and drive incident reviews while improving performance, reliability, and observability.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and operate distributed microservices and systems for Content & Business Products workflows.
  • •Develop and implement API services using gRPC, GraphQL, or RESTful interfaces.
  • •Make architectural decisions and set technical direction for engineering projects.
  • •Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident reviews.
  • •Drive written and verbal communication to explain complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 388,000 - 558,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health Insurance401kEquityDisability ProgramsHsa/fsaLife InsurancePaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years building resilient, high-scale, low-latency distributed microservices in production environments.
  • •Proficiency designing and implementing APIs using gRPC, GraphQL, or REST.
  • •Recent experience in Java, C#, or other OO languages with OO design, concurrency, multi-threading, performance tuning, and observability.
  • •Proven track record architecting, building, and operating distributed systems with high availability, fault tolerance, and performance.
  • •Experience setting technical direction for engineering projects and making architectural decisions while influencing cross-functional partners.
Experience:Distributed systemsMicroservicesCloud-nativeMediaLocalizationAI
Skills:Technical directionArchitectural decision-makingCommunicationStakeholder managementIncident review leadership
Tech Stack:MicroservicesDistributed systemsGRPCGraphQLRESTJavaC#OO designConcurrencyMulti-threadingPerformance tuningObservabilityGenerative AIAI-assisted coding

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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