Software Engineering L5

You will be charged with handling impactful availability, scalability, and usability challenges and must self-define optimal ways to configure, manage, and observe our growing Open Connect platform. Our platform is a fundamental building block to our streaming initiatives - providing critical solutions for one of the world’s largest CDNs and empowering stakeholders to operate the CDN more efficiently and reliably. In this position, you will have the opportunity to work in a wide variety of areas, such as:

• Implementing microservices to enable analytics, insights, discovery, and visualizations
• Designing orchestration to manage many thousands of globally distributed appliances and devices
• Building data models and APIs to help manage and maintain our fleet
• Understanding the breadth of our multi-tenant platform, creating solutions which can be leveraged across multiple domains - including networking, video, and gaming, Leads complex, multi-workstream product initiatives as a principal Product Owner. Owns product vision, strategy, backlog integrity, prioritization, and Scrum team alignment. Coordinates Product, Engineering, Design, Delivery, and other stakeholders; improves execution discipline, transparency, and outcome tracking. Stabilizes programs with fragmented ownership or elevated delivery risk while ensuring customer and business requirements are addressed. Requires substantial Product Owner or Senior Product Manager experience, preferably in payments or financial services., Leads revenue recognition, billing, accounts receivable, collections, audit readiness, and financial controls. Owns ASC 606 compliance, billing systems, process automation, AI-enabled accounting improvements, reporting, and cross-functional alignment. Manages and mentors the accounting team while supporting scalable revenue operations and public-company readiness. Top Skills: Ai-Enabled Automation ToolsAsc 606GaapExcelMicrosoft OutlookMicrosoft WordNetSuiteOracleSAP

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• Someone who likes to work hands-on and self-direct in a fast-paced environment that gives you great freedom and responsibility
• Able to see beyond immediate specifications, can summarize requirements, and architect forward-looking solutions that cross multiple applications
• Capable of working in a highly-collaborative environment alongside your teammates, engineers, Partner Engagement Managers, project managers, and operations teams
• Articulate in communicating opportunities for continuous improvements to existing systems with a clear understanding of the impact on the business.
• Always striving to develop and deploy in measured increments while taking responsibility for the quality of your work., * 5+ years of expertise in Java, or similar object-oriented language, with confidence and experience in debugging and problem-solving skills
• Deep understanding of cloud architecture and application deployment
• Ability to build and support highly scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant services
• Experience designing, implementing, and debugging systems that interact with large-sized data sets
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Bonus Skills

• Knowledge of CDN architectures and networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, BGP, DNS)
• Experience with multiple data stores and streaming services such as MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Kafka, or Redis
• Familiarity with GraphQL or related graph modeling and querying concepts
• Hands-on Big Data experience using Hive, Pig, Hadoop, or similar
• Understanding of front-end technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, WebSockets, Leads revenue recognition, billing, accounts receivable, collections, audit readiness, and financial control operations. Ensures ASC 606 and GAAP compliance, manages billing platforms and ERP integrations, drives automation and AI adoption, develops scalable processes, partners cross-functionally, reports financial metrics, and supervises accounting staff. Requires extensive revenue accounting and billing experience in SaaS or software, management expertise, and strong technical accounting knowledge. Top Skills: Ai-Enabled Accounting Automation ToolsBilling PlatformsErp SystemsExcelMicrosoft OutlookMicrosoft WordNetSuiteOracleSAP

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 $388,000.00 - $558,000.00. 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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Build and operate infrastructure software for Netflix’s Open Connect CDN. Responsibilities include developing microservices, designing orchestration for globally distributed appliances, creating fleet data models and APIs, and improving platform availability, scalability, observability, and reliability. The role requires hands-on architecture, implementation, debugging, and collaboration across engineering, networking, video, gaming, and operations teams. The summary above was generated by AI

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.

How do you spark joy in hundreds of millions of people? It starts with a vision - that technology can give voice to stories around the world. In delivering those much-loved stories, Netflix is responsible for a significant portion of global internet traffic.

To steward that responsibility, we work collaboratively with ISPs to deploy Open Connect, Netflix’s Content Delivery Network (CDN), which delivers 100% of Netflix’s viewing traffic. Our team’s mission is to support that delivery by providing an automation and tooling platform that supports the internal operations and external partnerships needed to provide a fantastic viewing experience for all Netflix members. We are looking for a talented software engineer specializing in infrastructure to join us on that mission.