Software Engineer L5 - GenAI Platform

Netflix

92d • $170,000 - $720,000

About The Position

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time. The data platform teams at Netflix enable us to leverage data to bring joy to our members in many different ways. We provide centralized data platforms and tools for various business functions at Netflix, so they can utilize our data to make critical data-driven decisions. We do all the heavy lifting to make it easy for our business partners to work with data efficiently, securely, and responsibly. We aspire to lead the industry standard in building a world-class data infrastructure, as Netflix leads the way to be the most popular and pervasive destination for global internet entertainment. The mission of the Gen AI Platform team is to boost the productivity of the data science and engineering community at Netflix. This means enabling users to spend more time solving business problems and less time engineering lower-level systems. We are seeking a Software Engineer to help build a developer platform that will provide the building blocks for Netflix to efficiently create GenAI applications. The platform will enable our teams to leverage LLM models and internally fine-tuned models. It will provide tools to support the LLM development lifecycle, high-level abstraction APIs for RAG, and tools for prompt engineering, management, and LLM operations.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with a successful track record of delivering quality results.
• Strong interest and experience with the latest GenAI stack (LLMs, RAG, Agents/Tools).
• Strong experience building SDKs and APIs for internal or external products.
• Strong software design and development fundamentals, with experience in building and operating scalable, observable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Java, GRPC, Python, Python package management tooling, and GraphQL.
• Experience in large-scale build, release, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), and observability methods.
• Experience designing, building, and deploying ML applications.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy APIs to access third-party large language models and internal fine-tuned ML models.
• Develop frameworks and components for building GenAI applications.
• Develop and maintain integrations between third-party products and the Netflix data platform solutions.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives and collaborate with engineers, product managers, and technical program managers across teams.
• Solve real business needs at scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Rapidly iterate with users to improve product experiences while establishing foundational capabilities.

Benefits

• Health Plans
• Mental Health support
• 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
• Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off.
• Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees