Full Stack Engineer 4 - Catalog Foundation & Distribution

Netflix•Los Angeles, CA

11d

About The Position

The Title and Launch Management (TLM) team is responsible for building and innovating the technology foundations that enable the ingest, setup, launch, and global distribution of all types of entertainment on Netflix—including series, movies, games, ads, live events, trailers, and more. TLM acts as the bridge between the title creation lifecycle and the consumer experience, ensuring that launching titles on Netflix is efficient, flexible, accurate, and scalable. Our team’s goal is to make launching titles as seamless as possible, supporting both operational and creative needs across the company. Members of the Catalog Foundations & Distribution (CFD) team play a pivotal role in delivering new and emerging content to millions of members worldwide! We build the engine behind the Netflix catalog, ensuring that every title and piece of metadata reaches consumer-scale systems cohesively, quickly, and safely. Our work is crucial for enabling engaging canvases, personalized recommendations, and seamless discovery experiences that bring "moments of joy" to our subscribers. As Netflix ventures into exciting new content domains like Live, Games, and Sports, the CFD team is at the forefront, building the critical foundations that accelerate these emerging business initiatives. You'll contribute to improving the speed and stability of our existing metadata systems, ensuring a lean footprint and fast data propagation, while also enhancing our safety features to protect against critical risks. This is an incredible opportunity to work on high-impact areas, driving business velocity and collaborating with partners across Netflix to deliver frequent wins for our stakeholders. If you're passionate about building robust, scalable systems that directly power the Netflix experience, we'd love to have you!

Requirements

Experience crafting resilient, high-scale, low-latency microservices in production environments.
Proficiency with gRPC, GraphQL, or RESTful API design and implementation using OO programming languages like Java, C#.
Adept at building enterprise applications with HTML/JavaScript/TypeScript/CSS.
A proven track record of resilient data modeling through understanding and translating business requirements to technical requirements and identifying entities and their relationships that will serve the business process needs.
Experience participating in on-call rotation and leading incident reviews.

Nice To Haves

Experience working and building enterprise tools for a video streaming business.
Strong communication skills and comfort driving conversations with cross-functional partners.
Comfort operating in highly ambiguous situations in a fast-paced environment.
Operating with an AI first mindset and ability to propose AI forward solutions.
Ability to operate effectively through the full-stack.
Evangelizing new ideas and exemplifying technical leadership with a bias for action.
Comfort asking questions and seeking knowledge in unfamiliar or ambiguous situations.

Responsibilities

Building and innovating the technology foundations that enable the ingest, setup, launch, and global distribution of all types of entertainment on Netflix.
Building the engine behind the Netflix catalog, ensuring that every title and piece of metadata reaches consumer-scale systems cohesively, quickly, and safely.
Improving the speed and stability of existing metadata systems.
Enhancing safety features to protect against critical risks.
Contributing to building critical foundations that accelerate emerging business initiatives like Live, Games, and Sports.