Software Engineer 4 - Media Encoding Pipelines New

Netflix, Inc.
Reading, MA, United States
2 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
2 years minimum
Compensation
$250,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Amazon Web Services Automation of Tests Software Quality Encodings Distributed Systems Object-Oriented Software Development Systems Development Life Cycle Cloud Platform System

Requirements

  • Are a quick learner and excited about learning new technologies
  • Passionate about automated testing, code quality and engineering best practices
  • Thrive in an environment with lots of context and minimal guidance
  • Enjoy collaborating with both technical and non-technical partners from cross-functional teams and have excellent communication skills
  • Enjoy taking full ownership of projects from conception to production, * 2+ years of working experience
  • Proficient in Java and OO design principles
  • Experience in designing and developing large-scale distributed systems
  • Experience with cloud computing platforms such as Amazon AWS
  • Experience in media encoding system development is a plus

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 $250,000.00 - $413,000.00. This compensation range will vary based on location.

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.

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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.

The mission of Encoding Technologies is to deliver the best A/V experiences to our members and our studio customers via media innovations. A critical component for achieving this goal is highly scalable, cloud-based encoding pipelines that support generating media assets in various formats and quality levels and propagating media metadata associated with these assets across the surrounding ecosystem.

The Media Encoding Pipelines team focuses on developing such infrastructure to support workflow orchestration, metadata publishing, task prioritization, and catalog management. In recent years, our scope has expanded from supporting the on-demand streaming service to ads, free-to-air broadcast television, video podcasts, and more. We are looking for talented engineers to join our team and elevate our system to the next level.

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