Netflix · 3 days ago
Software Engineer (L5), Gen AI - Observability
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$100K/yr - $720K/yr
8+ years expNetflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, and they are seeking a Software Engineer (L5) for their Observability team. This role involves designing and implementing systems for AI-driven analysis and troubleshooting, ensuring the reliability and performance of Netflix's cloud services.
Digital EntertainmentMedia and EntertainmentTVVideo Streaming
Responsibilities
Design and implement the distributed backbone for Netflix Observability's agentic AI-driven analysis, inference, and orchestration systems
Develop robust ingestion and correlation layers that unify signals from logs, metrics, traces, and alerts across cloud and on-prem environments
Optimize and extend workflows for real-time, actionable recommendations and RCA automation
Collaborate cross-functionally with Observability, SRE, and Platform teams to scale AutoSRE as a self-serve, extensible AI agent for Netflix engineering
Qualification
Required
Industry Experience: You have 8+ years of software engineering experience
Gen AI stack: You have strong interest and experience with the latest GenAI stack (LLMs, RAG, Agents). You have familiarity with workflow engines like Temporal, AWS Lambda, AWS AgentCore, LangGraph, AI Observability systems like Braintrust
Distributed systems: You have experience in building and operating scalable, observable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems. You have experience with AWS services
Tech stack: You are proficient in Java, GRPC, Python. Familiarity with Scala is a plus
Full lifecycle engineer: You are knowledgeable about and are willing to own all areas of the software lifecycle: design, development, test, deploy, operate, and support
Well-informed opinions: You have well-informed opinions on subjects and do not shy away from making decisions
Provide and take feedback: You are proactive about soliciting and providing feedback (technical, behavioral, instilling team norms)
Selfless: You seek what is best for Netflix and make time to help colleagues across the team succeed
Comfortable with ambiguity: You are curious and enjoy working on ambiguous problems where the solutions still need to be defined. You excel at cross-functional ownership and driving alignment to reach a decision, even when it is outside of your wheelhouse
A deep sense of ownership: You take deep ownership of your projects and feel pride in delivering great work with attention to the details
Share Knowledge: You like to share your learnings and mentor folks around you in your areas of expertise
Preferred
Observability Experience: You have extensive knowledge about or built observability products like logs, metrics, and traces
Company
Netflix
Netflix is an online streaming platform that enables users to watch TV shows and movies.
10001+ employees
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