Senior Software Engineer - Developer Automation Platform (Backend)

About the position

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with 283 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time. The Test Automation Platform team provides the core infrastructure and capabilities to enable automated testing of the Netflix product at scale. Our Device & Test Automation platform is used to enable other teams to qualify and validate the Netflix TV, mobile, and web client applications, partner device implementations, mobile games, and more. We view ourselves as a force multiplier for Netflix engineering, providing composable capabilities and pluggable abstractions that allow teams to manage, orchestrate, and analyze their automated tests and test devices. Our platform executes and ingests results for over 3 million test executions daily.

Responsibilities

• Build and support applications and service infrastructure to augment and improve our automated test and device management platform with a focus on reliability and scale.
• Research and develop ways to improve the user experience and reduce/remove the manual toil for users of our systems.
• Optimize and innovate our platform capabilities to expand its impact on Netflix's quality efforts.
• Evangelize and influence partner teams to improve their test and automation strategies and implementations.
• Drive cross-functional projects to integrate and augment our platform with new use cases.
• Research and leverage GenAI applications to enhance productivity of the platform users.

Requirements

• You have a platform-engineering mindset and enjoy making services and applications that other engineers use and build on top of.
• You are passionate about quality and the art of software testing and automation, and you bring this passion to your work.
• You have a strong understanding of both client side and server side JavaScript and enjoy writing TypeScript.
• You understand the networking details in client/server communication and can comfortably debug issues related to HTTP, TCP, DNS etc.
• You have built and supported scalable and reliable tools & services.
• You take initiative and drive projects with dedication.
• You excel in collaborative settings and use your strong communication skills to influence outcomes.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working with datastores such as MongoDB and managing data effectively.
• You have experience working with Linux operating systems, including troubleshooting system issues as well as utilizing the command line.

Benefits

• Annual salary compensation structure without bonuses.
• Choice of compensation in salary versus stock options.
• Diversity and inclusion initiatives.