Full Stack Software Engineer (L5), Studio Orchestration Platform

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 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.

Our Content & Business Products (CBP) Engineering teams build the products and services to optimize and automate the content creation process including content planning, financing, production, promotion, and distribution. We support Netflix's enterprise needs including Finance, Talent, Tech Support, and Customer Support to ensure smooth operations. Our products enable the entire workflow of content production, from pitch to play, and provide innovative new ways to develop and manage entertainment at scale. The team’s work is critical to supporting the creation of movies and TV series that will thrill the world!

Job Summary:

In this role, you will evolve the Studio Orchestrator platform to better serve our content production partners in the live action, animation and visual effects domains. This will involve extending the capabilities of the platform and integrating the platform into the tools in the domains - this includes artist content creation tools such as Maya and Nuke as well as asset management systems and various data storage platforms.

About the Studio Orchestrator Team 

The Studio Orchestrator Team develops and operates a robust platform designed for building media workflows and complete media business applications. This platform delivers essential development primitives and non-functional requirements, such as content security, enabling quick and easy creation of media applications. Currently, this platform is foundational to managing and transforming hundreds of petabytes of footage, integrating GenAI and other machine capabilities into content production, and powering Netflix's animation and visual effects initiatives.

Who you are

• Have recent proficient experience with Python and another language, preferably Java

• Proficient with gRPC, GraphQL, or RESTful API design and implementation

• Working experience with RDBMS and messaging systems such as Kafka

• Working experience with modern frontend frameworks, especially React, and strong in JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS

• Familiarity with the professional content production industry (VFX, animation) is a plus

What sets you apart

• You are a passionate technologist focused on leveraging technology to solve practical, real-world problems and deliver significant impact

• You take a pragmatic, thoughtful, practical approach to problem-solving that considers trade-offs and avoids over-engineering

• You possess a deep empathy for the users of your software, allowing their needs and experiences to thoughtfully guide your development decisions

A few more things about us

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 $170,000 - $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.

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity 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.