Fullstack Engineer, Netflix
Exploration and Troubleshooting
$100-720k
Office located in Los Gatos, CA
Streaming service
Job no longer available
Streaming service
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$100-720k
Office located in Los Gatos, CA
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
- Full Stack: You would consider yourself a full-stack developer. You have experience in both backend and frontend development for a good part of your career and expertise in owning and maintaining backend services
- Backend for Frontends: You are proficient in designing, building, and operating API layers that support various front-end user experiences. You should have experience with GraphQL and Node.js
- API development: You have built, maintained, evolved, and/or sunset a variety of APIs
- React: You are proficient in working with React and TypeScript
- Full lifecycle engineer: You are knowledgeable about and are willing to own all areas of the software lifecycle: design, development, test, deploy, operate, and support
- Industry Experience: 6+ years of experience in high-scale, modern tech-driven companies
- Collaborate: You enjoy collaborating with multiple teams and use your communication skills to influence product direction and keep stakeholders in the loop
- Communicate: You are comfortable explaining topics to a competent as well as inexperienced audience
- Well-informed opinions: You have well-informed opinions on subjects and do not shy away from making decisions
- Provide and receive feedback: You are proactive about soliciting and providing feedback
- Selfless: You seek what is best for Netflix and make time to help colleagues across the team succeed
- Comfortable with ambiguity: You are curious and enjoy working on ambiguous problems. You excel at cross-functional ownership and driving alignment to reach a decision, even when it is outside of your wheelhouse
- A deep sense of ownership: You take deep ownership of your projects and feel pride in delivering great work with attention to the details
- Share Knowledge: You like to share your learnings and mentor folks around you in your areas of expertise
Desirable
- Observability Experience: You have used or built observability products like logs, metrics, and traces
- Platform mindset: You have worked on infrastructure or platform teams where other engineers at the company were your customers
What the job involves
- This role is part of the Exploration and Troubleshooting team, a crucial part of our Observability engineering group
- In your role, you will work across this suite of products to deliver a best-in-class observability experience and combine numerous observability signals into usable, actionable insights
- A large portion of your responsibilities will also involve representing our team to our Observability sister teams: Telemetry and Monitoring
- You will work with individuals with extensive background experience in the Observability space and learn how an observability product operates at the Netflix scale
Our take
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.
Steph
Company Specialist
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
Articles
Leadership
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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