Full Stack Software Engineer 5 - Games Developer Tools

Netflix is a company dedicated to entertaining the world by merging creativity, intuition, and cutting-edge technology. The Games Developer Tools team is seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer 5 to build and enhance tools and platforms for game developers, focusing on improving their workflows and user experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Build tools and platforms that help game developers build, debug, and ship great games for Netflix members
• Own intuitive UIs, flows, and integrations backed by robust APIs and services
• Work closely with game developers to shape product direction and own features end to end—from data model and API design through UI and instrumentation

Requirements:

• 6+ years of full stack development experience building and operating production systems
• Modern frontend experience, ideally with React and TypeScript
• Backend experience with at least one of: JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js), Java, Python, plus familiarity with GraphQL or similar API technologies
• End‑to‑end ownership of features: data models and persistence, API/service design, UI implementation, and instrumentation (metrics, logs, traces)
• Developer‑facing tooling experience (e.g., developer portals, dashboards, configuration consoles, debugging tools, or editors)
• UX iteration with technical users: gathering feedback from developers, shipping improvements, and measuring impact
• API design and integration experience, including clean, versioned APIs used by web UIs, CLIs, game engines, or services
• Operationally thoughtful running live tools/services: observability, production debugging, and attention to stability, usability, and backwards compatibility
• Game engine & runtime awareness: familiarity with Unity and/or Unreal (editor extensions, in‑engine tools, plugins, build/content pipelines, runtime instrumentation) and how content flows from engine → build → runtime
• Developer insights & performance tooling: building or integrating UIs for metrics/logs/traces and making complex technical data actionable for engineers
• Desktop app experience: building and shipping Electron (or similar) apps, including auto‑update, packaging, offline behavior, and OS integration
• Multi‑tenant / multi‑title systems: exposure to auth, authorization, and isolation across multiple games, titles, or tenants
• External/partner‑facing tools: experience building tools used beyond a single internal team
• Interest or experience in games: gaming industry, game dev tooling, or game production workflows