Full Stack Software Engineer 5 - Eventing & Communications Platform

Netflix is a global entertainment company building technology to entertain the world. The Full Stack Software Engineer 5 will build and operate robust, scalable eventing and communications platform products, including frontend widgets and backend services, that support business workflows, notifications, and real-time collaboration. The role also involves leading cross-functional initiatives, mentoring engineers, and driving reliability and operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Strongly self-motivated, working independently, and partnering with a diverse group of engineers, product managers, designers and TPMs across different functional areas and organizations
• Empowering other engineers by building and operating robust, scalable, and highly available platform products, including both frontend widgets and backend services, with a focus on developer experience, observability and operational excellence
• Thriving in ambiguity, diving deep to understand problems and customer pain points, and solving them using appropriate technologies
• Being an evangelist for high quality code and engineering best practices
• Assisting in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals, and helping build technical communities across the organization
• Living the Netflix’s culture and thinking you would thrive here

Requirements:

• • Proficiency in architecting and developing highly-leveraged platforms that other engineering teams build on, across the full software stack — from GraphQL/RESTful APIs and embeddable UI components to resilient, high-scale, real-time asynchronous backend systems in production
• • Solid backend expertise in architecting microservices, including their data structures and APIs, using Java, C#, or comparable object-oriented languages. Applies rigorous OO design principles to deliver high performance, strong observability, and seamless extensibility, while effectively transforming business needs into technical designs
• • Have recent, hands-on experience building complex, high-quality user interfaces with HTML, JavaScript/TypeScript, and CSS, with exposure to React and modern frontend architecture (component design, state management, performance optimization). A strong eye for UI/UX craft
• • Experience in leading cross-functional initiatives with design, product, and engineering partners, managing scope, balancing tradeoffs, orchestrating dependencies across teams, and driving delivery from ambiguous goal to launched, operable product
• • Proven ability to communicate and influence across audiences by distilling complex technical and business concepts for engineers, product, and leadership, and driving alignment and decisions through clear writing, design docs, and reviews
• • Track record of operational ownership by leading incident response and post-incident reviews, and driving the reliability, observability, and on-call improvements to raise the team's bar
• • Big plus: Experience in architecting and developing messaging bus, asynchronous data processing, workflow orchestration and other related infrastructure platform domains
• • Deep understanding of and/or hands-on experience applying distributed systems concepts such as partitioning, idempotency, backpressure and distributed tracing
• • Proactively leveraging AI to amplify impact by accelerating decisions through rapid prototyping, blurring cross-functional boundaries, and transforming team processes into AI-powered ones