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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer - **Company:** Netflix, Inc. - **Location:** Mercury, NV, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), JavaScript (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, TypeScript, Backend, Kotlin - **Published:** July 21, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.workingnomads.com/job/go/1740591/ ## About the Role * Prior experience leading large and/or cross-functional projects or product domains in a large engineering organization (500+ engineers). * Prior experience on a team that builds tooling for other engineers (Developer Productivity, Platform, Engineering Effectiveness, or similar). * Deep, hands-on expertise with agent context, plugins, and evals; strong fluency with modern agentic development practices and curiosity about where the space is headed. * Demonstrated judgment under change: you adapt quickly, make sound tradeoffs without perfect information, and improve your approach as tools and constraints evolve. * Track record of influence across teams without authority: standards, contracts, or paved paths other groups adopt. * Examples of positive impact outside your immediate team (efficiency, quality of life, user sentiment, measurable adoption). * Proficiency in Java/Kotlin/Go or JavaScript/TypeScript. * Strong product engineering mindset: empathy for peers and customers, clarity on who benefits from your work and why now vs later. * Comfort with ambiguity, incremental delivery, and continuous learning from production signals. * A track record of technically leading and mentoring a team of engineers (formally or as a tech lead), with genuine belief in the value mentoring brings and evidence you have raised the bar for those around you., * Prior experience with Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) where engineers discover tools, documentation, and agent workflows in one place. Our sister team works on Console, Netflix's Developer Portal, a primary place where engineers interact with agents. * RAG/vector DB experience (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector). * Backend / distributed systems experience., * Are comfortable with ambiguity and enjoy problems where the solution still needs to be defined; you drive alignment and decide when consensus is unclear. * Have a deep sense of ownership and pride in shipping reliable, customer-focused platform work. * Communicate clearly in writing and conversation, including with partners who are new to agent context and evals. * Proactively solicit and act on feedback from customers and colleagues. * Seek what is best for Netflix and help colleagues across teams succeed. * Are a self-starter: curious, biased to action, and willing to learn in public as the space keeps moving. ## Description We are hiring a Staff engineer to serve as the technical lead for this pod: accountable for technical outcomes, farming for dissent across partners, and making clear judgment calls when the space shifts. You will set technical direction for a team of 4+ engineers and work shoulder to shoulder with the pod's EM, PM, and the organization's Architect to turn an ambiguous, fast-moving space into durable platform work. This is a new team in a new space; this role will be central to bootstrapping how we deliver context and how it connects to the broader engineer and agent experience at Netflix., * Shape how Netflix delivers, evaluates, and governs agent context across plugins, Dev Profiles, and NECP, with a bias to action and incremental delivery in production. * Exercise judgment under change: stay current on the AI landscape, separate signal from hype, and translate what matters into durable platform improvements for Netflix engineers. * Define and evolve technical strategy for the context platform as tools, models, and organizational needs shift. * Partner with platform and domain teams to enable context producers to improve the daily agent experience for consumers. * Establish feedback loops early: engage customers, measure quality and adoption, and iterate based on what you learn in production. * Operate with agility when requirements are ambiguous: socialize options, decide, align partners, and adjust course as you learn. * Make thoughtful technical and product tradeoffs in a fast-moving AI space. * Lead and grow a team of 4+ engineers as their technical lead: set the technical bar, mentor through design and code. 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