Software Engineer 5 – Agent Platform, AI Platform

Netflix is a leading entertainment company focused on innovation and storytelling. They are seeking a Software Engineer 5 for the Agent Platform team, responsible for designing and building AI agent infrastructure and ensuring its reliability and observability at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and operate the Agent SDK and MCP Gateway that Netflix engineers use to build, deploy, and run AI agents in production
• Build agents and agent infrastructure across the full lifecycle — plan/act/observe loops, tool and MCP integrations, deployment, and day-2 operations
• Make evaluation a first-class part of the platform: build the tracing, eval suites, and quality signals that let teams measure agents, catch regressions, and iterate to make them better
• Own reliability, observability, and guardrails for non-deterministic systems running at very high scale
• Lead cross-functional initiatives with ML scientists, data scientists, product managers, and other AI Platform teams
• Rapidly iterate with users to improve the developer experience while establishing durable foundational capabilities