Senior Software Engineer (L5) - Continuous Integration Platform

Netflix is a leading entertainment company dedicated to pushing the boundaries of storytelling and technology. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help modernize their Continuous Integration platform by driving feature work, collaborating with other teams, and optimizing build processes.

Responsibilities:

• Driving feature work and taking ownership of services that are a part of Netflix’s Continuous Integration platform, which operate and manage various aspects of the CI tooling
• Leading workflow design, spotting opportunities for re-use, preventing anti-patterns, and minimizing future changes for users
• Operate and maintain a build controller and self-hosted build agents, optimizing for fast-starting, repeatable builds
• Collaborate with various other Platform teams to ensure their systems can integrate with our CI Platform
• Support cross-organization critical change campaigns across a wide variety of source code repositories
• Support customers with a variety of build and environment needs
• Work cross-functionally to build new services, tools, and data models to operationalize our workflows at scale
• Participate in product reviews and team meetings, providing technical insight. Help scope, estimate, and prioritize between conflicting needs
• Evaluate new technologies and approaches to streamline and improve our rapid application development tooling and conventions
• Regularly learn new systems and tools as the Netflix platform and ecosystem evolve
• Participate in our on-call rotation and contribute to incident reviews

Requirements:

• Experience running and operating continuous integration systems such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI, and BuildKite
• Experience with JVM infrastructure
• Adept at designing and building APIs for customers, in particular with GraphQL
• Experience working with microservice architectures
• Experience with relational and non-relational data stores
• Self-driven and highly motivated to deliver top-tier solutions with minimal guidance
• Ability to recognize when you're wrong, learning from your mistakes and moving past them
• Enjoy collaborating and pairing with engineers to understand what they want, figure out what they really need, and finally, what we should build
• Strive to embrace best practices and are always searching for opportunities to continually improve