Software Engineer 5 - TV Developer Lifecycle: Test Infrastructure

Netflix•Remote, OR

1d•$388,000 - $558,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The TV Developer Lifecycle Team at Netflix is responsible for creating a high-velocity developer ecosystem for writing, validating, and shipping high-quality TVUI code. The team empowers TV UI Engineers to build, test, & ship features with speed, quality, and confidence. This team shapes how hundreds of millions of members discover and enjoy entertainment on their biggest screen at home, covering areas from CI/CD to test infrastructure, monorepo toolchains, quality & test observability, and monorepo AI infrastructure. The role is for a senior engineer to build and scale the test infrastructure behind the Netflix TVUI CI platform, owning orchestration services, CLI tools, device fleets, and observability for large-scale test execution across various test suites, as well as ensuring the operational health of these systems. This is a customer-centric, data-driven role focused on instrumenting deeply, driving strategic investments in test infrastructure to mitigate risk across a diverse device ecosystem, and ensuring steady progress in critical areas.

Requirements

Operating distributed test infrastructure at scale
Test orchestration & execution pipelines (parallelization, sharding, predictive test selection)
Experience with building test frameworks
Test stability and flakiness mitigation
Familiarity with UI Test Frameworks & Automation (Puppeteer, Playwright, Jest, Vitest)
Experience scaling and tuning test performance across device pools
CI/CD systems (Jenkins, BuildKite, GitHub Actions)
Strong ownership of reliability and incident response for owned systems
Optimizing runtime performance of test pipeline
Agentic PR/CI workflows
TypeScript/JavaScript
Passion for writing elegantly designed, maintainable, performant software.
Enjoy pushing the boundaries of what technology can do and exploring uncharted waters.
Love to empower other engineers and strive to understand their use cases.
Value the perspective of others when identifying solutions.
Understand that the goal is to solve problems, and a language, framework, or library is a means to an end.

Nice To Haves

Curiosity
Growth-oriented mindset
Collaborative spirit
Customer-centric approach
Listening, learning, and adapting skills
Assuming good intent
Consistently seeking to improve oneself and solutions
Flexibility to meet the needs of customers and the business
Strong opinions loosely held

Responsibilities

Build and scale the test infrastructure behind the Netflix TVUI CI platform.
Own the orchestration services, CLI tools, device fleets, and observability that power large-scale test execution across screenshot, end-to-end, performance, and on-device suites.
Ensure the operational health of test infrastructure systems.
Instrument deeply to gather data for system improvement.
Drive strategic investments in test infrastructure that mitigate risk across a diverse device ecosystem.
Ensure steady progress in the areas where it matters most.