Data Engineer, Netflix
Security
$150-750k
Office located in Los Gatos, CA
Streaming service
Job no longer available
Streaming service
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$150-750k
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
- The ideal candidate will have a strong background in distributed data processing, have great and demonstrable data intuition, and share our passion for continuously improving the ways we use data to make the Netflix infrastructure better
- Passionate about building intuitive data products
- Highly proficient in at least one of Java, Python or Scala with at least 2 years of software/data engineering experience
- Comfortable with advanced SQL
- Experienced in engineering data pipelines using big data technologies (Hive, Presto, Spark, Flink) on medium to large scale data sets
- Conceptually familiar or interested in learning security technology concepts and techniques
- Excel at taking requirements and implementing scalable data models and pipelines
- Excited about demonstrating excellence, learning new technologies and growing your career
- You will need to be comfortable working in the most agile of environments. Requirements will be vague. Iterations will be rapid. You will need to be nimble and take smart risks
What the job involves
- This role is specifically focused on enabling our security teams in detecting and mitigating various types of fraud like account takeovers, unauthorized third party apps, ripping content etc
- We are looking for a Data Engineer to build reliable data pipelines and intuitive data products that allow our stakeholders to easily leverage data in an effective manner
- As part of this team, you will work on diverse data technologies such as Spark, Presto, Flink, Kafka and others to build insightful, scalable and robust data pipelines; write ETL jobs to collect and aggregate data; and build high quality data models that describe the entities, interactions and usage patterns of the Netflix product
- Engineer efficient, adaptable and scalable data pipelines to process structured and unstructured data
- Develop a deep understanding of the security ecosystem at Netflix
- Partner with the security engineering teams to understand product goals and provide data which empowers teams to improve our fraud and security posture
- Maintain and rethink existing datasets and pipelines
- Enable smart analytics by building robust, reliable, and useful data sets that can power various analytic techniques like regression, classification, clustering etc
- Join a stunning team of data engineers with diverse skill sets, partnering closely with analytics engineering and data science counterparts
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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