Software Engineer (L5) Node.js Platform

Netflix is one of the world’s leading entertainment services with 278 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

The Role

We are the Node.js Platform team, and we are champions for UI (front-end) teams at Netflix. Our mission is to empower them to easily create applications, services, and libraries. We help them focus on innovation by reducing the complexity of building and operating software. We shepherd and evolve the Node.js vision at Netflix.

Developer experience runs in our DNA and influences every facet of our work. Our team provides a Node.js Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that enables engineers to easily develop and deploy code that meets Netflix's availability, observability, and reliability needs. We also provide an Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platform that allows engineers to easily and quickly configure domains, routes, and deploy UI code to production. These two mission-critical offerings work together to power Netflix.com, the API services consumed by Netflix devices, and an ecosystem of web applications that support our content production. Both are complete end-to-end offerings that take teams from zero to production.

We are one of two teams that comprise the larger JavaScript Platform team. For the next 2-3 years, we will be partnering closely with our sibling team to deliver the "UI Paved Road" aka the golden path, for the UI Engineer persona at Netflix. We aim to provide a comprehensive set of tools and technologies that will be used by hundreds of engineers, and deliver developer happiness throughout the software development experience. We define our success by our ability to accelerate productivity across Netflix engineering.

The team anchors on the human-facing elements of technology. These elements are emphasized in our Culture Memo and are applied in our day-to-day work. Code is a very small slice of this team's impact.

About This Role

• This role is focused on elevating the developer experience for our engineering teams using Node.js. The surface area is broad and includes library and framework development, development tooling, production diagnostics and debugging, operations, and developer engagement and developer support.
• Deeply understand how developers use Node.js at Netflix to create the optimal solutions and abstractions for their use cases, and to help drive and evolve recommended practices
• Collaborate with teams internally and in the Node.js community to shepherd and evolve the Node.js vision at Netflix (aka "The Paved Road")
• Provide and integrate the libraries, frameworks, and workflows that enable developers to build their Node.js software within the Netflix cloud ecosystem
• Build, optimize, scale, and operate our PaaS infrastructure for production
• Continuously improve operational excellence through a culture of learning and proactive investments in reliability and resiliency and operational
• Ensure full observability and real-time analytics into the state of Node.js services;
• Define and improve the dependency management, packaging, and publishing story for Node.js
• Identify and address patterns in the application runtime that make it harder for developers to productively build and maintain their software
• Address complex architectural problems with simple, intuitive designs
• Drive adoption of new technology into existing complex systems
  
  

Excelling In This Role

• You collaborate effectively with a variety of stakeholder groups: customers, partners, and the external Node.js community
• You build and maintain strong relationships across stakeholder groups
• You create clarity and drive alignment across stakeholder groups on technical and non-technical initiatives
• You are a curious and proactive learner that seeks to minimize assumptions and seeks to deeply understand before writing code or taking action
• You thrive in an ambiguous environment and can self-manage and self-prioritize your time, energy, and resources
• You are a storyteller and can weave a narrative joining the Netflix ecosystem with the external ecosystem
  
  

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 $100,000 - $720,000

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 detail about our Benefits here.

Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.