Software Engineer 6 – Context Enablement

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Netflix

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1997

📱 Media

👥 B2C

Media • B2C

Netflix is a global streaming entertainment company and content producer whose stated mission is "to entertain the world. " It operates a consumer-facing subscription platform offering on-demand TV shows, films, and original programming, and also runs a public careers site emphasizing culture, inclusion, and hiring accommodations. The provided text highlights Netflix’s focus on recruiting talent worldwide, its work-life and culture pages, and its public-facing employer materials.

📋 Description

• Shape how Netflix delivers, evaluates, and governs agent context across plugins, Dev Profiles, and NECP, with a bias to action and incremental delivery in production. • Exercise judgment under change: stay current on the AI landscape, separate signal from hype, and translate what matters into durable platform improvements for Netflix engineers. • Define and evolve technical strategy for the context platform as tools, models, and organizational needs shift. • Partner with platform and domain teams to enable context producers to improve the daily agent experience for consumers. • Establish feedback loops early: engage customers, measure quality and adoption, and iterate based on what you learn in production. • Operate with agility when requirements are ambiguous: socialize options, decide, align partners, and adjust course as you learn. • Make thoughtful technical and product tradeoffs in a fast-moving AI space. • Lead and grow a team of 4+ engineers as their technical lead: set the technical bar, mentor through design and code. You believe deeply in mentoring as a multiplier for team quality and velocity, not an optional extra, and you will also share that impact across the org.

🎯 Requirements

• Prior experience leading large and/or cross-functional projects or product domains in a large engineering organization (500+ engineers). • Prior experience on a team that builds tooling for other engineers (Developer Productivity, Platform, Engineering Effectiveness, or similar). • Deep, hands-on expertise with agent context, plugins, and evals; strong fluency with modern agentic development practices and curiosity about where the space is headed. • Demonstrated judgment under change: you adapt quickly, make sound tradeoffs without perfect information, and improve your approach as tools and constraints evolve. • Track record of influence across teams without authority: standards, contracts, or paved paths other groups adopt. • Examples of positive impact outside your immediate team (efficiency, quality of life, user sentiment, measurable adoption). • Proficiency in Java/Kotlin/Go or JavaScript/TypeScript. • Strong product engineering mindset: empathy for peers and customers, clarity on who benefits from your work and why now vs later. • Comfort with ambiguity, incremental delivery, and continuous learning from production signals. • A track record of technically leading and mentoring a team of engineers (formally or as a tech lead), with genuine belief in the value mentoring brings and evidence you have raised the bar for those around you.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health Plans • Mental Health support • 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match • Stock Option Program • Disability Programs • Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts • Family-forming benefits • Life and Serious Injury Benefits • Paid leave of absence programs • 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. • Flexible time off.