Full Stack Software Engineer L4 / L5 - Content Infrastructure & Solutions

Job Description

Content Infrastructure & Solutions (CIS) empowers engineers working on content and studio applications to be innovative and agile in supporting our massive global content production needs. We do that by providing scalable and resilient infrastructure to address integrated large-scale media, assets, data, workflow, and communication use cases. Examples of this organization's work include massive-scale media processing platforms (1, 2), workflows (conductor), and data processing at scale.

The Content MiddleWare Infrastructure team(MWI), a part of the Content Infrastructure & Solutions group, provides Studio and Content Engineering specific, highly leveraged, and fully managed data, workflow, and messaging & communication platforms facilitating the goal of the Connected Studio. To learn more about what the MWI team does, check out the following tech blogs: workflow (1, 2), search (1, 2, 3), and data movement (1, 2).

This team will own Graph Search (1, 2, 3), a Search-as-a-Service platform, within the MWI Data team. Graph Search streamlines search functions across various entities and workflows, notably in the Content Engineering domains but not limited to them. It offers a unified user experience encompassing both backend services and reusable front-end components. Graph Search is currently leveraged by around 70 applications and serves thousands of end users. This team may also contribute to the other infrastructure such as Ontology, SDSP, EARS, and RAW Hollow by collaborating with the rest of the MWI Data term in the US.

What we are looking for

In General

You are self-motivated and can work independently, while also being able to partner closely with other engineers on a project. You are passionate about building quality products and want to own development end-to-end, leading with the right architecture, and following sound engineering principles to deliver maintainable, performant and highly developer-friendly experience. You are a problem solver and like to challenge yourself, but you are not afraid to reach out when you need help and enjoy helping other engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

Even if you feel that you don't feel that you fully meet these preferred qualifications, if you're interested in the area or have had some exposure, we'd encourage you to reach out.

Experience working full stack (with a strong frontend skillset): You're not afraid to work full stack, and have a solid frontend skill set. We typically use Java on the backend and Typescript/React + GraphQL on the frontend, but we understand that good engineers can work in many different languages and frameworks. As a full stack engineer you should be comfortable turning ideas into usable, useful user interfaces and implementing backend API endpoints and integrations. We understand that some full stack engineers lean more heavily.

Experience operating a production system: To effectively build operational tooling, you should know what it's like to operate a service yourself. Likewise, the reliability of operational tooling needs to be incredibly high since these are tools that other engineers rely on to tell them if something is going wrong and to troubleshoot issues. Random frontend bugs or unreliable data can make it difficult for engineers using your tools to troubleshoot issues.

Experience building platforms, tooling or infrastructure for other engineers: Building services and tooling for other engineers to consume is a bit different than building line of business applications or standard microservices. A strong platform and infrastructure mindset, long term thinking, and the ability to understand what other engineers need will set you up for success in this role.

You have a passion for clean, well-tested performant code: This means you are dedicated to writing code that is not only functional but also maintainable and efficient. You understand the importance of comprehensive testing to ensure reliability and prevent future issues. You strive for optimal performance in your code, focusing on speed and resource efficiency. Your commitment to these principles helps create robust and scalable systems that other engineers can depend on and build upon with confidence.

Nice to have
• Experience with storage or media processing domains.
• Experience working with SLOs, SREs, and contemporary observability platforms. Even better if you have experience building an observability solution.
• Experience developing build tooling or delivery automation
• You've advocated for reliability and operational excellence in other roles
• Experience building self-service infrastructure tooling (eg to provision new infrastructure or to manage access to infrastructure)
• A good grasp of UX fundamentals (from an engineering perspective)
• Experience building user interfaces for other engineers
• Experience both collaborating with a designer and moving forward without direct designer support using component libraries or self-designed UI components.

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.

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