Full Stack Software Engineer (L5) - Game Developer Tools

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play pause and resume watching as much as they want anytime anywhere and can change their plans at any time.

The Games Developer Tools team builds tools and platforms that help game developers build debug and ship great games for Netflix members. As a Games Developer Tools Engineer (L5) you will be a full-stack engineer focused on developer‑facing tools and workflows that game teams rely on every day. You’ll bring a strong product and frontend mindset owning intuitive UIs flows and integrations backed by robust APIs and services. You thrive on developer experience and game development workflows working closely with game developers to shape product direction and owning features end to end—from data model and API design through UI and instrumentation.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of full stack development experience building and operating production systems.

• Modern frontend experience ideally with React and TypeScript.

• Backend experience with at least one of: JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js) Java Python plus familiarity with GraphQL or similar API technologies.

• End‑to‑end ownership of features: data models and persistence API/service design UI implementation and instrumentation (metrics logs traces).

• Developer‑facing tooling experience (e.g. developer portals dashboards configuration consoles debugging tools or editors).

• UX iteration with technical users : gathering feedback from developers shipping improvements and measuring impact.

• API design and integration experience including clean versioned APIs used by web UIs CLIs game engines or services.

• Operationally thoughtful running live tools/services: observability production debugging and attention to stability usability and backwards compatibility.

Nice to have

• Developer insights & performance tooling: building or integrating UIs for metrics/logs/traces and making complex technical data actionable for engineers.

• Game engine & runtime awareness: familiarity with Unity and/or Unreal (editor extensions in‑engine tools plugins build/content pipelines runtime instrumentation) and how content flows from engine → build → runtime.

• Desktop app experience: building and shipping Electron (or similar) apps including auto‑update packaging offline behavior and OS integration.

• Multi‑tenant / multi‑title systems: exposure to auth authorization and isolation across multiple games titles or tenants.

• External/partner‑facing tools: experience building tools used beyond a single internal team.

• Interest or experience in games: gaming industry game dev tooling or game production workflows.

Who you are

• Developer‑focused with a product mindset : You treat game developers as customers care about responsiveness clear flows helpful errors and strong docs/onboarding and you actively seek feedback to improve the experience.

• An end‑to‑end owner : You can take a feature from vague idea to design implementation rollout and long‑term support doing whatever is needed (backend UX polish migrations documentation) and balancing quick wins with longer‑term platform investments.

• Operationally thoughtful : You understand that widely used tools need high stability good UX and careful versioning/backwards compatibility and you design for observability and diagnostics to make triaging and debugging issues easier.

• Independent and highly collaborative : You’re comfortable with ambiguity communicate clearly with technical and non‑technical partners and work closely with production game developers PM/TPM design and other engineers to identify and solve meaningful pain points.

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 national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status.

Our culture is unique and we live by our values so it’s worth learning more about Netflix culture .

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 location and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $100000 - $720000.

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity recognizing that diversitybuilds 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.