Netflix

Software Engineer 5- Customer Service Platform

Netflix$388K — $500K+*
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience with TypeScript or JavaScript
  • Familiarity with modern UI frameworks like React
  • Strong object-oriented programming skills in Java, C++, or JavaScript
  • Proficiency in API technologies (GraphQL, gRPC, REST)
  • Knowledge of data structures, database design, and modern design patterns
  • Extensive experience integrating internal and third-party services
  • Experience with AWS or other cloud computing platforms

Responsibilities

  • Ideate, build, test, and deploy robust features for customer service applications
  • Collaborate closely with various engineering teams and product stakeholders
  • Integrate diverse vendor solutions into a cohesive platform
  • Focus on operational efficiency for both agents and customers
  • Oversee the transformation of legacy applications to modern architectures

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health plans and mental health support
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Stock option program
  • Disability programs
  • Flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts
  • Generous paid leave policies including 35 days for full-time hourly employees
  • Immediate access to flexible time off for salaried employees
Full Job Description

About the Team

The Customer Service Platform team empowers Netflix Customer Service to help out customers 24x7. We do this by creating a maintainable, scalable, and resilient technology ecosystem that blends in-house and vendor solutions.  

Our areas of responsibility include powering our help center through Content Management System (CMS), building a support agent-facing member management system (CRM), and maintaining other metadata management & operations tools.  We focus on operational efficiency, on both agent and customer experience, and enabling rapid innovation in how Netflix does Customer Service, especially in the world of Generative AI. 

We are transforming our technology ecosystem from one composed of mostly legacy home-grown applications to a modern hybrid architecture that strategically integrates vendor solutions while preserving Netflix-specific values. This platform powers support experiences across Streaming, Games, and Netflix House, complemented by significant investment in GenAI initiatives that will define the future of customer service.

About the job

We are looking for a seasoned engineer who is either a jack of all trades between frontend and backend, or have some speciality to bring to the table, e.g. experience building GenAI applications, prior experience in support domain, or experience working on hybrid ecosystems.

You will be the informed captain, responsible for ideating, building, testing, and deploying robust features that meet both technical and business objectives. While being independent, it may require close collaboration with many Netflix engineering sister teams, product stakeholders and external vendors, to deliver the comprehensive end-to-end solutions. 

You should have the platform mindset, as the system is built with layers of abstractions and orchestrations to handle massive end-user traffic and integrate with different vendor solutions at scale and flexibility. We are not only building for today, but also for tomorrow & beyond.

Qualifications:

  • Experience with TypeScript or JavaScript

  • Experience with modern UI framework such as React

  • Solid experience in object oriented programming in Java, C++ etc incl. Javascript class

  • Solid experience with API technologies such as GraphQL, gRPC, and REST

  • Solid knowledge of data structures, DB schema design and modern design patterns

  • Extensive experience integrating internal and/or third-party services

  • Experience with cloud computing platforms like Amazon Web Services

Nice to have

  • Experience in customer support / account management domain

  • Experience with Generative AI / ML at application level

  • Experience working with SLOs, SREs, and contemporary observability platforms. 

  • Experience developing build tooling or delivery automation

  • Experience with distributed systems / cloud deployment / AWS multi region 

  • An advocate for reliability and operational excellence

  • A good grasp of UX fundamentals

Generally, our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $388,000.00 - $558,000.00. This compensation range will vary based on location.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more details about our Benefits here.

Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.

About Netflix

Netflix, Inc. is an American media company founded on August 29, 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, and currently based in Los Gatos, California, with production offices and stages at the Los Angeles-based Hollywood studios (formerly old Warner Brothers studios) and the Albuquerque Studios (formerly ABQ studios). It operates an eponymous over-the-top subscription video on-demand service, which showcases acquired and original programming as well as third-party content licensed from other production companies and distributors. Netflix is also the first streaming media company to be a member of the Motion Picture Association.
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Size
11,300 employees
Market Cap
$127.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.7 billion
Founded
1997
5 Year Trend
+27.5%
Revenue
$24.9 billion
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