Full Stack Software Engineer 5 - Games Developer Tools

Netflix•Los Angeles, CA

10d•$388,000 - $558,000

About The Position

The Games Developer Tools team builds tools and platforms that help game developers build, debug, and ship great games for Netflix members. As a Games Developer Tools Engineer 5, you will be a full-stack engineer focused on game developer‑facing tools and workflows that game teams rely on every day. You’ll bring a strong product mindset, owning intuitive UIs, flows, and integrations backed by robust APIs and services. You thrive on developer experience and game development workflows, working closely with game developers to shape product direction and owning features end to end—from data model and API design through UI and instrumentation.

Requirements

6+ years of full stack development experience building and operating production systems.
Modern frontend experience, ideally with React and TypeScript.
Backend experience with at least one of: JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js), Java, Python, plus familiarity with GraphQL or similar API technologies.
End‑to‑end ownership of features: data models and persistence, API/service design, UI implementation, and instrumentation (metrics, logs, traces).
Developer‑facing tooling experience (e.g., developer portals, dashboards, configuration consoles, debugging tools, or editors).
UX iteration with technical users.
API design and integration experience.
Operationally thoughtful running live tools/services.

Nice To Haves

Game engine & runtime awareness: familiarity with Unity and/or Unreal (editor extensions, in‑engine tools, plugins, build/content pipelines, runtime instrumentation) and how content flows from engine → build → runtime.
Developer insights & performance tooling: building or integrating UIs for metrics/logs/traces and making complex technical data actionable for engineers.
Desktop app experience: building and shipping Electron (or similar) apps, including auto‑update, packaging, offline behavior, and OS integration.
Multi‑tenant / multi‑title systems: exposure to auth, authorization, and isolation across multiple games, titles, or tenants.
External/partner‑facing tools: experience building tools used beyond a single internal team.
Interest or experience in games: gaming industry, game dev tooling, or game production workflows.

Responsibilities

Builds tools and platforms that help game developers build, debug, and ship great games for Netflix members.
Focus on game developer-facing tools and workflows that game teams rely on every day.
Own intuitive UIs, flows, and integrations backed by robust APIs and services.
Thrive on developer experience and game development workflows.
Work closely with game developers to shape product direction.
Own features end to end—from data model and API design through UI and instrumentation.
Gather feedback from developers, ship improvements, and measure impact.
Design and integrate clean, versioned APIs used by web UIs, CLIs, game engines, or services.
Operate live tools/services with observability, production debugging, and attention to stability, usability, and backwards compatibility.