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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer 5 - Developer Infrastructure & Quality Platform - **Company:** Netflix, Inc. - **Location:** Los Gatos, United States - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Automation of Tests, Microsoft Azure, C++ (Programming Language), Command-Line Interface, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Systems, Data Warehousing, Shard (Database Architecture), Software Debugging, Linux, Disaster Recovery, Distributed Systems, Domain Name System (DNS), Hypertext Transfer Protocols (HTTP), Information Lifecycle Management, Load Testing, MongoDB, Networking Basics, Operational Data Store, Performance Tuning, TCP/IP, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), TypeScript, Google Cloud, Indexer, Backend, Data Lakes, Low Latency, Data Pipelines, Golang, Programming Languages - **Published:** August 30, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/4afec18f-d140-40d7-b0bd-b0fc1974da21 ## About the Role * You have a strong infrastructure and backend engineering background and enjoy working across services, storage, compute, and operations for large-scale platforms. * You have experience working with cloud provider technologies (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure) * You have experience with distributed systems fundamentals such as latency, throughput, backpressure, retries, idempotency, and consistency and availability tradeoffs. * You have significant experience in at least one programming language used in backend development (Java, Golang, C++, Typescript). * You understand networking fundamentals and can debug issues involving TCP/IP, HTTP, TCP, DNS, etc. * You take initiative and drive projects with dedication. * You excel in collaborative settings and use your strong communication skills to influence outcomes. Bonus Skills: * Experience with MongoDB or DocumentDB sharding, indexing, performance tuning, data lifecycle management. * Experience with infrastructure for large-scale test or CI systems, including scheduling, queuing, parallel execution, and resource-aware scaling. * Experience building or operating data pipelines and ETL from operational data stores into analytics systems such as Iceberg, data lakes, or data warehouses. * Familiarity with resilience engineering practices, including failure injection, DR and multi-region strategies, incident reviews, and Linux systems debugging from the command line. ## Description * Design, build, and operate backend services and infrastructure that power the Test Automation platform, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency. * Own and evolve core infrastructure components such as service deployment and delivery, platform datastores (Aurora, MongoDB, DocumentDB). * Standardize and modernize service infrastructure by moving services onto paved paths for observability, provisioning, capacity management, security. * Analyze and optimize critical systems like MongoDB for capacity, performance, and cost, including sharding, version upgrades, and data lifecycle strategies (TTL, archival, hot/cold storage). * Improve operational excellence by tuning metrics and alert sources, enhancing dashboards and alerts, and building runbooks. * Drive resilience and reliability initiatives such as load testing, failure injection testing, disaster recovery and high-availability strategies, and post-incident improvements grounded in cost/benefit tradeoffs. * Collaborate with partner teams on paved paths, storage and compute offerings, and ETL/data pipelines. ## Related Videos - [An Applied Introduction to eBPF with Go](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1075-an-applied-introduction-to-ebpf-with-go) - [DevOps at Netflix](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/270-devops-at-netflix) - [Go with the Flow: Stop the Leaks Before Your Memory's a Waterfall!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100073-go-with-the-flow-stop-the-leaks-before-your-memory-s-a-waterfall) - [Docker network without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1418-docker-network-without-docker) - [Turning Container security up to 11 with Capabilities](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/718-turning-container-security-up-to-11-with-capabilities) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [How Much FAANG Companies Actually Pay Software Engineers in 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/230-how-much-faang-companies-actually-pay-software-engineers-in-2025) - [20 Essential Tools For Backend Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/218-20-essential-tools-for-backend-development) - [Best Countries for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/267-best-countries-for-software-engineers) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated)