Data Engineer, Netflix
Business Intelligence
$100-720k
You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options
Office located in Los Gatos, California
Streaming service
Job no longer available
Streaming service
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$100-720k
You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options
Office located in Los Gatos, California
1001+ employees
Company mission
Entertainment, like friendship, is a fundamental human need; it changes how we feel and gives us common ground. Netflix is better entertainment at lower cost and greater scale than the world has ever seen. They want to entertain everyone, and make the world smile.
Role
Who you are
- You strive to write elegant code, and you're comfortable with picking up new technologies independently
- You are proficient in at least one major programming language (e.g. Java, Scala, Python) and comfortable working with SQL
- You enjoy helping teams push the boundaries of analytical insights, creating new product features using data, and powering machine-learning models
- You have a strong background in at least one of the following: distributed data processing software engineering of data services, or data modeling
- You are familiar with big data technologies like Spark or Flink and comfortable working with web-scale datasets
- You have an eye for detail, good data intuition, and a passion for data quality
- You appreciate the importance of great documentation and data debugging skills
- You relate to and embody many of the aspects of the Netflix Culture. You love working independently while also collaborating and giving/receiving candid feedback
- You are comfortable working in a rapidly changing environment with ambiguous requirements. You are nimble and take intelligent risks
What the job involves
- Data Engineering at Netflix is a role that requires building systems to process data efficiently and modeling the data to power analytics
- These solutions can range from batch data pipelines that bring to life business metrics to real-time processing services that integrate with our core product features
- In addition, we require our Data Engineers to have a rich understanding of large distributed systems on which our data solutions rely
- Candidates should have knowledge across several of these skill sets and usually need to be deep in at least one
- As a Data Engineer, you also need to have strong communication skills since you will need to collaborate with business, engineering, and data science teams to enable a culture of learning
- Learn more about the work of data engineers at Netflix
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Netflix was started when one of the co-founders had received a $40 late fee after failing to return a film on time. Now, Netflix is one of the fastest growing technology companies, reinventing the entertainment space by providing high quality content for low fees.
This is becoming an increasingly competitive space, with deep-pocketed rivals including Amazon, Disney, Apple and AT&T. They are all spending big on content and pricing cheaply in a battle to win subscribers.
After a dwindling number of subscribers due to tough competition in 2022, Netflix is focused and committed to improving its core service which is its TV, movies and now games going forward. Post-IPO funding of $183 million from Winslow Capital at the end of 2023 followed the previous year's dumping of shares by the same company after Netflix's first loss of subscribers. This capital indicates a shifting perspective on Netflix's outlook, which saw a year-end subscriber boost.
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2000
$50m
SERIES E
Jul 1999
$30m
SERIES D
Total funding: $103.5m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Inclusion
- You work well with people of different backgrounds, identities, values and cultures
- You are excited to help build diverse teams where everyone feels welcomed and respected
- You recognize we all have biases and work to counteract them
- You take action if someone is marginalizing a colleague
- You treat everyone with respect regardless of their position at Netflix
- Integrity
- You exhibit and are known for candor and transparency
- You only say things about colleagues that you are willing to share with them
- You admit mistakes openly and share learnings widely
- You always share relevant information internally, even when uncomfortable
- You act with good intent and trust your colleagues to do the same
- Passion
- You care deeply about Netflix‘s success
- You inspire others with your drive for excellence
- You are excited about your work
- You are proud to entertain the world
- You are tenacious and optimistic
- Innovation
- You develop new ideas that prove impactful
- You look for every opportunity to reduce complexity and keep things simple
- You challenge prevailing assumptions, and suggest better approaches
- You are flexible and thrive in a constantly evolving organization
- Curiosity
- You learn rapidly and eagerly
- You seek alternate perspectives to improve your ideas
- You see patterns and connections that other people miss
- You seek to understand members’ changing tastes and desires
Company HQ
Los Gatos, CA
Founders
Reed Hastings
(Chairman)Served two years with the Peace Corps in Switzerland. Studied Computer Science at Stanford, and founded Pure Software (which sold for a substantial profit before Netflix). Previously a Board Member at Microsoft and Facebook.
Greg Peters
(Co-CEO)Previously Netflix COO and CPO, SVP and CE of Product Development at Macrovision, VP of Engineering at Mediabolic, Director at Redhat inc, VP Engineering at NOCpulse.
People progressing
Joined as a Content Strategy Associate in LA. Moved to London after 6 months. They have been promoted to Head of Content Strategy & Analysis UK.
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