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Senior Software Engineer, API Platform team
Netflix
Los Gatos, CA, United States
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The Company
Netflix is the leading provider of subscription streaming video, reaching over 93 million subscribers around the world. Netflix accounts for more than one third of the Internet's downstream traffic during peak hours in North America, and we support more than 1,000 different device types. We have a strong commitment to open source and our software and is used by many companies.
The Culture
Do you want to make an immediate and daily impact on tens of millions of customers? Do you want to work with smart people who love to solve hard problems? This is the kind of environment that we value at Netflix. High performance is not only noticed but required. Freedom and responsibility are how we operate every day.
The Role
The Edge Platform team provides the unique platform requirements for the highly-trafficked API layer that processes and routes all requests from devices to backend services. The team plays a pivotal role in Netflix to ensure a highly resilient API which in turn ensures a great product experience for our customers. As Netflix expands internationally, the Edge Platform team is embarking on a major redesign of our system. The redesign has implications for all device, API, and backend service teams at Netflix and will make our system more reliable, scalable, and performant as we grow. We are looking for an experienced, passionate, and self-motivated engineer who will contribute to and influence the direction of this vision.
To be successful in this role, you must excel at working in a highly collaborative, cross-functional environment. You must be curious about investigating multiple options, be a quick learner, and have excellent software development abilities. There is no shortage of opportunities to shape the future of our product, and the team has the freedom to chart its own destiny.
Skills:
• You are passionate about building distributed, reliable, scalable, low-latency, service-oriented web services
• You have worked on and understand large scale service engineering and operational challenges
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment of innovation and cross-team collaboration
• You are able to keep calm during production issues and focus on problem resolution
• You are motivated by "the art of the possible" and are able to balance idealism and pragmatism with your solutions
• You may have experience building applications using Amazon Web Services
To Learn More
• Netflix Tech Blog
• Presentations by Daniel Jacobson
• Hystrix
• Netflix API by Kathrin Probst