Software Engineer 5 – Training Platform, AI Platform

Netflix
Panama
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 466,000 - 750,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Engineering judgment","Cross-team collaboration","Technical communication","Influencing stakeholders","Operational excellence"]

Build and operate the platform that powers large-scale machine learning model training, fine-tuning, transformations, and evaluation workflows used across Netflix. Lead the design of distributed training infrastructure and performance improvements for large training jobs, and create easy-to-use APIs and interfaces for ML engineers and non-experts. Work with Kubernetes, Ray, and PyTorch primitives while partnering across ML, research, infrastructure, and platform teams to deliver reliable AI tooling at scale.

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Netflix
Netflix
1 year ago

Software Engineer 5 – Training Platform, AI Platform

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Job Summary

Build and operate the platform that powers large-scale machine learning model training, fine-tuning, transformations, and evaluation workflows used across Netflix. Lead the design of distributed training infrastructure and performance improvements for large training jobs, and create easy-to-use APIs and interfaces for ML engineers and non-experts. Work with Kubernetes, Ray, and PyTorch primitives while partnering across ML, research, infrastructure, and platform teams to deliver reliable AI tooling at scale.
Location: Panama
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and build the platform powering large-scale machine learning model training, fine-tuning, transformations, and evaluations workflows.
  • •Co-design and optimize systems and models to scale distributed training and improve cost-effectiveness.
  • •Develop easy-to-use APIs and interfaces that help ML practitioners and non-experts access the training platform.
  • •Improve performance and reliability for large training jobs across metrics like GPU utilization, memory efficiency, and fault tolerance.
  • •Partner with ML engineers, researchers, and infrastructure teams to lead technical discussions, drive alignment, and deliver high-impact capabilities.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 466,000 - 750,000 annually
Perks:Health Insurance401kEquityPaid LeaveDisability

Key Requirements

  • •Design, build, and operate platform infrastructure, libraries, and SDKs for large-scale model training, enabling reliable workflows for foundation and generative AI models.
  • •Diagnose and optimize performance for large distributed training jobs, including GPU utilization, memory efficiency, communication overhead, data loading, checkpointing, fault tolerance, and cluster utilization.
  • •Have experience with cloud computing providers, preferably AWS.
  • •Comfortably work across multiple layers of the tech stack to deliver both 0-to-1 and 1-to-100 projects in ambiguous environments.
  • •Promote operational best practices such as observability, logging, reporting, and on-call processes to ensure engineering excellence.
Experience:Machine learningGenerative AIFoundation modelsDistributed trainingCloud
Skills:Engineering judgmentCross-team collaborationTechnical communicationInfluencing stakeholdersOperational excellence
Tech Stack:KubernetesRayPyTorchAWSSageMakerBedrockDatabricksOpenAIFSDPTensor parallelismPipeline parallelismPyTorch ProfilerNVIDIA Nsight Systems

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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