Software Engineer L5, AI Observability & Agent Evaluation

Netflix

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TL;DR · Software Engineer L5, AI Observability & Agent Evaluation

Software Engineer L5 - AI Observability & Agent Evaluation joins the AI Platform organization to make AI, ML, and agentic systems transparent and production-ready. You will build the observability framework and platform capabilities, providing metrics, logs, and distributed traces across online inference, batch scoring, and agent orchestration. Responsibilities include developing primitives for monitoring model performance, data quality, and drift, as well as extending evaluation frameworks for LLM and agentic systems to support grounding, hallucination, and task success. You will design reusable libraries, SDKs, and APIs to integrate vendor tooling into a consistent interface. Required skills include Python and Java, Go, or Scala, along with experience in distributed systems, microservices, and observability stacks like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or ELK.

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What you'll do

  • Build an observability framework to provide metrics, logs, and distributed traces for ML and GenAI systems.
  • Develop primitives for teams to monitor model performance, data quality, drift, and degradation independently.
  • Create evaluation frameworks for LLM and agentic systems to measure response quality, grounding, and task success.
  • Lead build-vs-buy evaluations and manage SDKs and APIs to integrate third-party observability and evaluation tools.
  • Develop reusable libraries, SDKs, and templates to establish observability-by-default for new AI systems.
  • Provide dashboarding, alerting, and SLO/SLI building blocks to track model latency, cost, and reliability.

What we're looking for

  • Experience in software, AI/ML, or platform engineering with hands-on production observability, monitoring, or ML/LLM evaluation.
  • Proven track record of designing standards, libraries, SDKs, or frameworks that other teams build on and adopt.
  • Strong coding skills in Python and at least one of Java, Go, or Scala to build production services.
  • Practical experience operating ML models in production, including drift, model performance, and data quality.
  • Hands-on experience with modern observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, ELK, or Jaeger.
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and at least one major cloud platform like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Experience with vendor integration and VPC deployment.
  • Hands-on experience with ML/LLM observability tools or building and evaluating LLM/GenAI and agentic systems (preferred).

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