Senior Software Engineer (L5) - Continuous Integration Platform

Netflix

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Work type: Remote
Location: Remote
Salary: $388,000–$619,000 / yr
Posted: 60 days ago

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About Netflix

Netflix is the world''s leading streaming entertainment service, offering a vast library of TV series, films, documentaries, and original content to subscribers in over 190 countries. Industry: Streaming Entertainment & Media

Netflix currently has 117 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer (L5) - Continuous Integration Platform

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As a senior engineer joining Netflix’s Platform Engineering team, you will drive the modernization of our continuous integration (CI) infrastructure by building and owning key services within the next-generation CI platform. Your day-to-day involves leading workflow design, optimizing build processes, collaborating with other teams to integrate their systems, and supporting critical change campaigns across diverse repositories. You’ll also work on evaluating new technologies, participating in product reviews, and contributing to incident management. Ideal candidates are self-driven, passionate about developer productivity at scale, and experienced with CI tools like GitHub Actions and BuildKite, as well as microservice architectures and GraphQL API design. This role requires expertise in JVM infrastructure, relational and non-relational data stores, and a commitment to continuous improvement.

Skills

Jenkins GitHub Actions CircleCI BuildKite GraphQL Microservices Docker Kubernetes AWS Python Java SQL NoSQL CI/CD Terraform Git Prometheus Grafana

What you'll do

Drive feature work and own services in Netflix’s Continuous Integration platform.
Lead workflow design to prevent anti-patterns and minimize future changes for users.
Operate and optimize build controllers and agents for fast, repeatable builds.
Build new services and data models to operationalize workflows at scale.
Evaluate new technologies to streamline rapid application development tooling.

What we're looking for

Extensive experience operating continuous integration systems like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, and BuildKite.
Proven ability to design and build APIs, particularly with GraphQL.
Strong background in microservice architecture design and implementation.
Expertise in managing both relational and non-relational data stores.
Experience in modernizing CI tooling for large-scale enterprise environments.
Self-driven problem-solving skills with a focus on developer productivity challenges.

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