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[Remote] Software Engineering L5, Open Connect Platform

๐ŸŒ Remote ยท United States ๐Ÿ’ผ Full-time

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Netflix is a global entertainment company using technology to deliver stories and viewing experiences to hundreds of millions of members. The Software Engineering L5 will build and operate infrastructure, automation, and tooling for the Open Connect content delivery platform, addressing availability, scalability, and usability challenges. The role involves developing microservices, orchestration systems, data models, and APIs for globally distributed CDN infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Skills

  • * 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
  • * 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

Benefits

  • 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
  • Life and Serious Injury Benefits
  • 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.

Company Overview

  • Netflix is an online streaming platform that enables users to watch TV shows and movies. It was founded in 1997, and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.netflix.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Netflix has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 152 in 2026, 310 in 2025, 309 in 2024, 191 in 2023, 261 in 2022, 268 in 2021, 225 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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