Software Engineer in Test 5 - Apple Player

Netflix•Los Gatos, CA

9d•$266,000 - $442,000•Remote

About The Position

Our team implements the Netflix Player that delivers Netflix content to our users on iPhones, iPads, and Apple TV — but we do not build the UI. We're responsible for everything required to deliver a seamless streaming experience once a member presses play. This includes building an HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) playlist, fetching a FairPlay license to decrypt DRM protected content, seamlessly inserting Ads, streaming Live events, supporting multiple Audio and Subtitle tracks, securely transmitting data, and much more. Our work includes driving measurable improvements to our members' streaming experience as well as building out new features to support innovative product experiences. As part of our day-to-day work, we collaborate with UI engineering and product teams, Apple, content and studio engineering, and data experts to deliver video playback to every part of the Netflix experience on Apple devices.

Requirements

Highly experienced ensuring the quality of consumer-facing iOS/iPadOS/tvOS applications at scale with Swift and Objective-C.
Deeply curious about Audio and Video and how streaming at Netflix works.
A champion for automation and testing, with the software engineering chops to build the tools, frameworks, and infrastructure that make automation possible — not just consume them.
Experienced applying AI tooling in a testing context — you've built and used AI-assisted workflows to generate tests, triage failures, analyze flakiness, or close coverage gaps, and you bring that experience to bear on quality problems rather than waiting for tools to be handed to you.
Comfortable drawing the line between what should be automated and what should remain manual, and able to defend that line with data and judgment rather than dogma.
Open and proactive communicator who shares context, ideas, and feedback while engaging in active listening — drives collaboration across platform and team boundaries, whether with our UI and TVUI counterparts, fellow Player engineers on Android and TV, product managers, or data science partners.
Passionate about testing at every layer of the stack — not just XCUI end-to-end automation, but component, integration, and unit testing as well. You use your experience and judgment to find the right testing solution wherever it lives and influence other engineers on the team to adopt the right approach.
Systems thinker who can reason through the interactions of complex systems and services and understand technical tradeoffs, especially in a domain where playback issues are often emergent and hard to reproduce.
Scientific thinker who can define hypotheses and use data to reason about test results — we run a high volume of automation across a diverse set of devices.

Nice To Haves

Experience with HLS, Media Playback, or AVPlayer is a bonus.

Responsibilities

Ensuring the quality of consumer-facing iOS/iPadOS/tvOS applications at scale with Swift and Objective-C.
Building the tools, frameworks, and infrastructure that make automation possible.
Applying AI tooling in a testing context, including building and using AI-assisted workflows to generate tests, triage failures, analyze flakiness, or close coverage gaps.
Defining hypotheses and using data to reason about test results.
Bringing a world-class experience to millions of people watching our content on varied devices, in different languages, with diverse network connectivity, from locations across the globe.
Driving collaboration across platform and team boundaries.
Influencing team quality culture and driving test strategy decisions.
Reasoning through the interactions of complex systems and services and understanding technical tradeoffs.