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Company

Netflix · 5 days ago

Senior Design Engineer, Design Engineering

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$100K/yr - $720K/yr

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Owning, maintaining, and expanding critical API infrastructure (Design Platform API) serving hundreds of requests per second (Federated GraphQL Service, Node, Apollo)

Designing, maintaining, and evolving GraphQL Schemas critical to delivering server-driven UIs

Supporting back-end requirements of Design Tooling products

Completing medium to large features independently without guidance

Be the engineering lead on projects, working from ideation to implementation to rollout

Work with engineers across other teams to maintain the integrity and reliability of the Design platform

Participate in on-call rotation to continue to meet our critical SLAs

Conducting design and code reviews

Qualification

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GraphQLNode.jsJavaScriptAPI designTypeScriptMySQLPostgresProject managementDesign SystemsOpen-source contributions

Required

5+ years of professional experience designing, building, and shipping software

Experience with server driven UI architectures, patterns, and API design

Proven ability to lead projects and clearly and effectively communicate with partners

Experience with scaling and maintaining high-traffic production systems in previous positions

Experience working with relational databases (MySQL, Postgres) and key/value stores

Strong project scoping and project management skills.

Able to design, architect, debug, test, and create well-documented code

Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js

Preferred

You’re known for your excellent communication skills (written and verbal)

You have an ownership mentality in all the things you build and are comfortable with identifying opportunities and driving forward-looking technical roadmaps

You take a thoughtful, practical approach to problem-solving that considers tradeoffs and avoids over-engineering

You’re motivated by the scope and impact to influence decisions that impact millions of users and billions of requests

Expert at managing large-scale APIs and web application

Current/former professional experience working with Design Systems

Bonus if you’ve contributed to open-source projects

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

Paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off

Flexible time off

Company

Netflix

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Netflix is an online streaming platform that enables users to watch TV shows and movies.

Founded in 1997

Los Gatos, California, USA

10,001+ employees

https://www.netflix.com

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