UI Engineer, Netflix
TV Release Quality
$100-720k
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
Streaming service
Job no longer available
Streaming service
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$100-720k
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
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 love to empower other engineers and strive to understand their use cases
- You are excited about building innovative ways to tell the quality story of our product
- You are proficient in TypeScript/Javascript
- You’ve worked on consumer-facing client applications; bonus if you’ve worked in the areas of observability, alerting, or developer tooling
- You can run with ambiguous requirements and have a strong bias to action
- You value the perspectives of others when identifying solutions
- You know there is rarely one “right” solution, and you make thoughtful trade-offs
- You proactively give and receive feedback, even when it's hard
- You lean in to help build an inclusive team culture that enables team members of all backgrounds to succeed and thrive
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced UI Engineer who is passionate about quality to join the TV Release Quality team
- The TV Release Quality team is dedicated to testing, measuring, understanding, and communicating the overall quality of our TV streaming application both before and after it is released to production
- The team will focus on improving and innovating in the spaces of our test automation framework, metrics, observability, and alerting
- This team will also set a strategic vision for test automation and quality in the TV space, collaborating with stakeholders and partners across Netflix
- Join a team of senior foundational TV UI engineers who value inclusion, transparency, autonomy, and humility
- Identify and build innovative solutions that improve our understanding of the quality of the TV streaming application
- Tell the quality story of our product through improved observability, alerting, dashboarding, and tools
- Strengthen our test automation foundations and signals
- Work in our custom TV platform space, which has unique constraints and capabilities
- Collaborate, build alignment, and develop strong relationships with engineers and leaders across multiple teams
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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