Senior Design Engineer, Design Engineering

Job Description

The Role

XD Design Engineering is a small team of engineers with a big mandate: to develop, maintain, and innovate the Design Platform central to Netflix's product development lifecycle.
Our goal is to improve product development velocity without compromising on fidelity and to increase efficiency of the design/engineering handoff.
Our portfolio includes API services, web apps, and figma Plugins, serving a diverse range of cross-functional partners, from product designers and project managers to software engineers.

In this high-impact role, you'll work on the foundational system that powers the Netflix Design System across multiple design and engineering platforms. You'll collaborate closely with both designers and engineers, working with platform and product teams to drive innovation. You'll lead and champion projects and effectively communicate their impact to partner teams. You will also gather input from stakeholders, identifying opportunities to help set a long-term technical strategy that continuously evolves the design platform to ensure it remains best-in-class.

Responsibilities
• Owning, maintaining, and expanding critical API infrastructure (Design Platform API) serving hundreds of requests per second (Federated GraphQL Service, Node, Apollo)
• Designing, maintaining, and evolving GraphQL Schemas
• Supporting back-end requirements of Design Tooling products
• Completing medium to large features independently without guidance
• Identifying and implementing reliability and performance improvements in our backend portfolio
• Upholding our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the codebases, infrastructure, and processes you will encounter
• Conducting design and code reviews

About You
• 5+ years of professional experience designing, building, and shipping software
• Proven ability to lead projects and communicate with cross-functional partners
• Strong project management skills
• Able to design, architect, debug, test, and create well-documented code
• Able to identify and componentize common abstractions with an eye for performance and stability of large-scale systems
• Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js
• You strive to elevate the knowledge and skills of yourself and others in a way that fosters an inclusive, collaborative environment

Even Better
• You're known for your excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• You have an ownership mentality in all the things you build and are comfortable with identifying opportunities and driving forward-looking technical roadmaps
• You take a thoughtful, practical approach to problem-solving that considers tradeoffs and avoids over-engineering
• You're motivated by the scope and impact to influence decisions that impact millions of users and billions of requests
• You're well-versed in the technologies of the modern frontend landscape. You can distill hype from practical application
• Current/former professional experience working with Design Systems
• Bonus if you've contributed to open-source projects

Compensation Range

Generally, 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

Benefits

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.

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

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