Netflix · 2 months ago
Software Engineer L5 - Content Localization
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$230K/yr - $700K/yr
8+ years expNetflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships. The role involves building and maintaining tools for localizing content to multiple languages, enhancing accessibility, and supporting the content production workflow.
Digital EntertainmentMedia and EntertainmentTVVideo Streaming
Responsibilities
Crafting resilient, high-scale, low-latency, distributed microservices in production environments
Building, operating and maintaining tools that allow linguists to author scripts that assist with localization workflows
Innovating on improving accessibility to our content via audio description or SDH assets
Participate in our on-call rotation and lead the incident reviews
Qualification
Required
You have 8+ years of experience crafting resilient, high-scale, low-latency, distributed microservices in production environments
Proficient with gRPC, GraphQL, or RESTful API design and implementation
Any experience with media pipelines or relevant domain experience
Have recent proficient experience with Java, C#, or other OO programming languages with a solid understanding of OO design principles, concurrency, multi-threading, performance tuning, and observability
Have a proven track record in architecting, building, and operating distributed systems with high availability, fault tolerance, and performance
Have solid experience in setting technical directions for engineering projects, making architectural decisions, and influencing partner and cross-functional teams
Have the ability to proactively describe complex technical concepts to a variety of stakeholders, driving conversations and decisions through written and/or verbal communication
Participate in our on-call rotation and lead the incident reviews
Preferred
Curious about a broad range of new or unfamiliar technologies, the consumer base, and product vision
Comfortable asking questions and seeking knowledge in unfamiliar or ambiguous situations
Seek different perspectives, feedback, and relevant information to continuously grow and improve
Maintain strong relationships with cross-functional teams through clear communication
Take a thoughtful, practical approach to problem-solving that considers tradeoffs and avoids over-engineering
Endeavor to elevate the knowledge, skills, and abilities of yourself and others that are conducive to fostering an inclusive, collaborative environment
Company
Netflix
Netflix is an online streaming platform that enables users to watch TV shows and movies.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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$63.91BKey Investors
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2025-12-05Post Ipo Debt· $59B
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2018-05-05Post Ipo Debt· $2.67M
Leadership Team
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Co-CEO
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Co-CEO
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