Software Engineer 4/5, Data and Feature Infrastructure, AI Platform

Netflix

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Remote

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$466,000–$750,000 / yr
Posted
7 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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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 179 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer 4/5, Data and Feature Infrastructure, AI Platform

Software Engineer 4/5 – Data and Feature Infrastructure, AI Platform joins the AI Platform organization to build next-generation machine learning data and feature infrastructure. This role focuses on improving the productivity of ML practitioners by creating systems that handle the computation, storage, and serving of feature values for high-throughput training and low-latency member-scale inference. Key responsibilities include designing near-real-time feature computation engines, managing pipelines, and developing centralized feature and embedding stores for various domains like personalized recommendations and payments. The position requires expertise in building and operating 24/7 high-traffic online applications using large-scale data processing frameworks like Spark, Flink, and Kafka. Candidates must also possess experience with data storage technologies such as Iceberg and Cassandra, while optimizing Java and Python codebases within public cloud environments like AWS.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $208800 from 354 postings across 50 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and build a near-real-time feature computation engine for high-throughput training and low-latency inference.
  • Operate and manage feature computation pipelines and serving infrastructure across multiple ML domains.
  • Build and scale systems to accelerate training through performant data loading, transformation, and writing.
  • Create frameworks to streamline the availability of new data for training and serving.
  • Develop feature stores that enable feature discovery and sharing across various ML domains.
  • Build a centralized embedding store to enable sharing across different business areas.
  • Improve ML practitioner productivity by simplifying the definition and access of features and labels.

What we're looking for

  • Experience in building ML or data infrastructure.
  • Experience in building and operating 24/7 high-traffic and low-latency online applications.
  • Experience with large-scale data processing frameworks such as Spark, Flink, and Kafka.
  • Experience with data storage and serving technologies such as Iceberg and Cassandra.
  • Experience in working with and optimizing Java and/or Python codebases.
  • Experience with public clouds, especially AWS.
  • Experience in building and operating ML feature stores, such as Chronon (preferred).
  • Experience in building embedding-based retrieval systems (preferred).

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