Software Engineer 5, Platform Data Products

Netflix

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Work type: Remote
Location: Remote
Salary: $388,000–$558,000 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 12 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today

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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

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TL;DR · Software Engineer 5, Platform Data Products

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Software Engineer 5 - Platform Data Products joins the Platform Data Science & Engineering team to help optimize cloud and AI infrastructure. As the first software engineer on this team, you will set technical direction and own products from scoping to implementation. You will build and ship full stack features for infrastructure cost and usage tooling, including interactive web applications, backend services, APIs, and agent-facing tools. Key responsibilities include designing data models, building reusable components, and integrating with microservices. You must possess strong skills in TypeScript, React, Node.js, and GraphQL, along with data fluency in SQL and relational data modeling. The role addresses technical challenges regarding cloud infrastructure efficiency, GPU efficiency, and enterprise-scale AI platform concerns, specifically focusing on analyzing AI productivity, cost, and usage.

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Skills

TypeScript React Node.js GraphQL SQL GenAI Relational Data Modeling API Design Microservices Druid Iceberg Data Modeling

What you'll do

Build and ship full-stack features for infrastructure cost and usage tooling using React, TypeScript, and GraphQL.
Design and implement backend services, APIs, and interactive web applications for cloud and AI infrastructure.
Develop products to analyze AI productivity, costs, and usage including architecture design and data modeling.
Create reusable components and shared infrastructure to support visualization and analytics engineering teams.
Integrate pertinent data into internal surfaces such as developer platforms and ML/AI platform tooling.
Partner with data engineers to reason about data models and underlying pipelines for data-heavy products.
Set technical direction and own the end-to-end lifecycle of products from scoping to implementation.

What we're looking for

Must have experience designing, building, and shipping full stack applications.
Must have experience contributing to internal systems and tools you don't own.
Must have strong TypeScript and React skills.
Must have backend experience in Node.js, GraphQL, or similar to own data features end to end.
Must have data fluency in SQL and comfort reasoning about data models.
Must have a track record of owning work independently and setting technical direction.
GraphQL API design, or work with Druid, Iceberg, or similar analytics data stores (preferred).
Experience working closely with data scientists, analytics engineers, or data engineers on a small team (preferred).

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