Software Engineer in Test 5 - iOS Player New

Netflix, Inc.
Los Gatos, CA, United States
3 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Compensation
$266,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Unit Testing Network Connections Software Engineering Strategies of Testing Objective C++

Requirements

  • Highly experienced ensuring the quality of consumer-facing iOS/iPadOS/tvOS applications at scale with Swift and Objective-C, and deeply curious about Audio and Video and how streaming at Netflix works. Experience with HLS, Media Playback, or AVPlayer is a bonus.
  • A champion for automation and testing, with the software engineering chops to build the tools, frameworks, and infrastructure that make automation possible - not just consume them.
  • Experienced applying AI tooling in a testing context - you’ve built and used AI-assisted workflows to generate tests, triage failures, analyze flakiness, or close coverage gaps, and you bring that experience to bear on quality problems rather than waiting for tools to be handed to you.
  • Comfortable drawing the line between what should be automated and what should remain manual, and able to defend that line with data and judgment rather than dogma.
  • Open and proactive communicator who shares context, ideas, and feedback while engaging in active listening - drives collaboration across platform and team boundaries, whether with our UI and TVUI counterparts, fellow Player engineers on Android and TV, product managers, or data science partners.
  • Passionate about testing at every layer of the stack - not just XCUI end-to-end automation, but component, integration, and unit testing as well. You use your experience and judgment to find the right testing solution wherever it lives and influence other engineers on the team to adopt the right approach. Proven experience influencing team quality culture and driving test strategy decisions.
  • Systems thinker who can reason through the interactions of complex systems and services and understand technical tradeoffs, especially in a domain where playback issues are often emergent and hard to reproduce.
  • Scientific thinker who can define hypotheses and use data to reason about test results - we run a high volume of automation across a diverse set of devices.
  • Passionate about bringing a world-class experience to millions of people watching our content on varied devices, in different languages, with diverse network connectivity, from locations across the globe.

Benefits & conditions

Generally, our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $266,000.00 - $442,000.00.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more details about our Benefits here.

Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.

About the company

At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. Together, we are writing the next episode - pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom and making the unimaginable a reality. We are a dream team obsessed with the uncomfortable excitement of discovering what happens when you merge creativity, intuition and cutting-edge technology. Come be a part of what’s next., Our team implements the Netflix Player that delivers Netflix content to our users on iPhones, iPads, and Apple TV - but we do not build the UI. We’re responsible for everything required to deliver a seamless streaming experience once a member presses play. This includes building an HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) playlist, fetching a FairPlay license to decrypt DRM protected content, seamlessly inserting Ads, streaming Live events, supporting multiple Audio and Subtitle tracks, securely transmitting data, and much more.

Our work includes driving measurable improvements to our members’ streaming experience as well as building out new features to support innovative product experiences. As part of our day-to-day work, we collaborate with UI engineering and product teams, Apple, content and studio engineering, and data experts to deliver video playback to every part of the Netflix experience on Apple devices.

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