Systems Development Engineer L5

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships. The company is seeking a Senior Systems Development Engineer to design, develop, and deploy scalable technical solutions that support its content creation businesses, collaborating with various internal and external teams.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and support the services and solutions that improve the experience and productivity for a broad range of creative content domains (e.g. post-production, animation, visual effects, genAI, virtual production)
• Work at a scale where your deployments will have a wide-reaching impact, across multiple studios, supporting distributed teams in multiple regions
• Design, automate, and develop solutions to enhance the efficiency and resiliency of our systems and services by taking into account hybrid environments and planning for them
• Maintain and extend internal tooling and automation, including configuration management and service based infrastructure management
• Participate in system and infrastructure updates and migrations, including on-call rotation, as well as troubleshooting tasks to maintain system resiliency and performance

Requirements:

• You have a minimum of 6 years of experience in developing, automating and deploying complex systems to deliver technology solutions to end-users
• You are able to distill and understand large, complex systems into their most critical components and understand the value each brings to the overall solution, spanning from hardware-level to software architectures
• You have a passion for automation, efficiency, and scalability, consistently driving operational excellence
• You excel at identifying high-leverage, high-value opportunities and focus your attention on them independently
• You enjoy and can effectively work collaboratively with business and product teams to develop product plans and roadmaps and then are able to lead the hands-on implementation of those plans
• You use data-driven decision making, applying thorough analytics and real-time insights for strategic and operational decisions
• Broad experience deploying configuration management across multiple platforms (Linux, Windows, macOS) with disparate methodologies
• Experience in VFX, animation, or a similar creative services industry