Senior Software Engineer (L5) - Personalization Data Engineering

About the Team

With nearly 200 million members in over 190 countries and a billion hours of streaming each month Netflix is the world’s leading online entertainment company. Netflix continues to shape the future of entertainment by developing personalized ways for members to discover and enjoy a rapidly growing catalog of movie and TV content.

The personalization data engineering team is responsible for building large web-scale datasets used for personalizing the Netflix experience. These datasets serve as inputs to the advanced machine-learning systems that drive our product innovation. All of this is done by leveraging Big Data infrastructure like Spark Flink Kafka Cassandra Presto etc to build data pipelines frameworks and services.

About the role

Given the size complexity and criticality of our datasets we are looking for a Software Engineer with a deep analytical mindset and experience with modern distributed systems. As a member of this team you will drive innovation in big data processing by contributing and adding to the team’s suite of data products and frameworks. You will also have the unique opportunity to partner with our world-class algorithm teams to drive continuous improvement and innovation to Netflix personalization.

Skills required for this role:

• 5+ years of experience building production data pipelines (using Spark Flink etc.) on web-scale datasets.

• Proficiency in at least one major programming language (e.g. Java Scala) and ability to pick up new tech skills independently.

• Hands on experience with schema design and data modeling with an unmistakable passion for elegant and intuitive dataset design.

Qualities we value:

• You have a passion for engineering excellence and tolerance for ambiguity in a fast-paced setting.

• You are independent and can allocate your time judiciously. You employ organizational context to resolve competing priorities.

• You are able to strategically partner with diverse stakeholders to drive innovation.

• You seek to drive change and influence others through clear and effective communication.

• You are both a leader and a learner and can smoothly inter-operate between the two personas with humility and maturity

Our culture:

Netflix's culture is key to our success. We celebrate diversity recognizing that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams and we approach inclusion equally 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 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 and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $170000 - $720000.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans Mental Health support a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match Stock Option Program Disability Programs Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts Family-forming benefits and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs.  Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation holidays and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more details about our Benefits here .

Netflix is a unique culture and environment.  Learn more here .

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 ancestry national origin caste sex sexual orientation gender gender identity or expression age disability medical condition pregnancy genetic makeup marital status or military service.