Software Engineer L5 – Edge Platform Automation, Validation

🕒 June 27

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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

• Own and build scalable testing infrastructure and end-to-end automated validation for edge appliances, covering functional, resiliency, performance, and upgrade and rollback testing, with high reliability, strong observability, and clear release gates, including tests that validate the platform can meet scaling and performance requirements under production-like workloads • Improve failure triage with AI-assisted tooling that reduces time-to-detection and time-to-resolution • Lead and mentor engineers building and maintaining test automation and release qualification • Partner with OS, security, hardware, and application teams to ensure validation keeps pace with rapid product development • Debug complex regressions across hardware/firmware/OS boundaries and collaborate cross functionally to drive fixes to resolution • Build dashboards and alerting for regression detection, performance drift, and release readiness

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years software engineering experience (or equivalent depth), including ownership of CI/CD systems and architecting large scale test automation • Strong coding ability in Python, Rust and or Go, with comfort writing shell scripts • Deep hands-on experience with Linux and/or FreeBSD in systems contexts (boot, networking and storage) • Strong ability to design, build, and operate cloud services that support CI/CD and test automation, including maintaining service reliability, scalability, observability, and cost efficiency • Experience designing automated test frameworks for reliability, performance, hardware-in-loop, integration testing • Proven ability to provide technical leadership across teams through setting standards, mentoring, and owning roadmaps • Experience with modern CI systems and build and release pipelines such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins or similar tools • Strong debugging skills across distributed systems and low-level systems boundaries using logs, metrics, tracing, and performance tooling • Proficiency working on highly distributed systems

🏖️ 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 • 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