Netflix

Software Engineer in Test 5 - Apple Player

Netflix$266K — $442K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in quality assurance for iOS/iPadOS/tvOS applications using Swift and Objective-C.
  • Deep understanding of Audio, Video, and HLS streaming technology.
  • Proficient in building automation tools, frameworks, and infrastructure.
  • Experience with AI-assisted testing workflows for quality assurance.
  • Strong judgment in determining automation vs. manual testing strategies.
  • Excellent communicator and active listener, fostering cross-team collaboration.
  • Solid grasp of complex system interactions and technical tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure high quality of streaming playback through rigorous testing and automation.
  • Collaborate closely with UI engineering, product teams, and external partners to enhance video playback.
  • Drive improvements in streaming experience based on user feedback and performance data.
  • Build and maintain automation frameworks and tools for consistent testing outcomes.
  • Evaluate and apply AI tooling to improve testing efficiency and coverage.
  • Conduct thorough testing at various levels, including unit, integration, and end-to-end.
  • Analyze complex systems to diagnose playback issues and derive solutions.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health plans including mental health support.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching.
  • Stock option program with flexible salary options.
  • Disability programs and health spending accounts.
  • Family-forming benefits and life insurance coverage.
  • Generous paid leave of absence and vacation policy.
Full Job Description
Our team implements the Netflix Player that delivers Netflix content to our users on iPhones, iPads, and Apple TV — but we do not build the UI. We're responsible for everything required to deliver a seamless streaming experience once a member presses play. This includes building an HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) playlist, fetching a FairPlay license to decrypt DRM protected content, seamlessly inserting Ads, streaming Live events, supporting multiple Audio and Subtitle tracks, securely transmitting data, and much more. Our work includes driving measurable improvements to our members' streaming experience as well as building out new features to support innovative product experiences. As part of our day-to-day work, we collaborate with UI engineering and product teams, Apple, content and studio engineering, and data experts to deliver video playback to every part of the Netflix experience on Apple devices. Who You Are • Highly experienced ensuring the quality of consumer-facing iOS/iPadOS/tvOS applications at scale with Swift and Objective-C, and deeply curious about Audio and Video and how streaming at Netflix works. Experience with HLS, Media Playback, or AVPlayer is a bonus. • A champion for automation and testing, with the software engineering chops to build the tools, frameworks, and infrastructure that make automation possible — not just consume them. • Experienced applying AI tooling in a testing context — you've built and used AI-assisted workflows to generate tests, triage failures, analyze flakiness, or close coverage gaps, and you bring that experience to bear on quality problems rather than waiting for tools to be handed to you. • Comfortable drawing the line between what should be automated and what should remain manual, and able to defend that line with data and judgment rather than dogma. • Open and proactive communicator who shares context, ideas, and feedback while engaging in active listening — drives collaboration across platform and team boundaries, whether with our UI and TVUI counterparts, fellow Player engineers on Android and TV, product managers, or data science partners.  • Passionate about testing at every layer of the stack — not just XCUI end-to-end automation, but component, integration, and unit testing as well. You use your experience and judgment to find the right testing solution wherever it lives and influence other engineers on the team to adopt the right approach. Proven experience influencing team quality culture and driving test strategy decisions. • Systems thinker who can reason through the interactions of complex systems and services and understand technical tradeoffs, especially in a domain where playback issues are often emergent and hard to reproduce. • Scientific thinker who can define hypotheses and use data to reason about test results — we run a high volume of automation across a diverse set of devices. • Passionate about bringing a world-class experience to millions of people watching our content on varied devices, in different languages, with diverse network connectivity, from locations across the globe. 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 $266,000.00 - $442,000.00. 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.

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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