Senior Software Engineer (L5) - Analysis
Netflix•, AK
•$349,200 - $557,100
About The Position
The Analysis team in Experimentation Platform builds and operates the core systems that power A/B test analysis across Netflix. Our tools enable confidence in business decisions that affect our members. We are looking for a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer to design, build, and operate the next generation of analysis tooling at Netflix.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of experimentation lifecycle and risks
- You’ve done it before: run or facilitated experiments with large business implications, understanding the risks and rewards of experimentation at scale.
- Backend & distributed systems depth
- You’ve built and operated reliable and observable backend workflows and understand how to apply core algorithms, and systems design to real-world distributed systems.
- Strong coding & operational rigor
- You write high-quality code and systems, and have owned production services end-to-end: monitoring, on-call, debugging, and systematic performance and reliability improvements.
- High-impact collaboration & product sense
- You work effectively with other engineers and cross-functional partners, bring clarity to ambiguity, drive decisions, and keep a sharp focus on delivering value to internal users and stakeholders.
Nice To Haves
- A background in data science/statistics is a big plus.
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve critical experiment analysis tooling
- Build, maintain, and improve real-time and batch analysis workflows for experiment analysis, regression detection, and more
- Own reliability and performance
- Participate in on-call, lead incident response, and drive long-term reliability improvements
- Instrument services with rich observability (metrics, logs, traces) and continuously tune for resilience, performance, and scalability
- Shape data and integration surfaces
- Collaborate with teams using technologies like Flink, Spark, Elasticsearch, and Druid to ensure experimentation data is correct, timely, and usable
- Define clear data and API contracts for consumers and pipelines
- Partner with product engineering teams
- Deeply understand experimentation workflows across Netflix
- Simplify and improve the experience for monitoring and deciding experiments
Benefits
- 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
- Life and Serious Injury Benefits
- paid leave of absence programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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