Senior Design Engineer, Design Engineering

Netflix is one of the world’s leading entertainment services with 278 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 Role

XD Design Engineering is a small team of software engineers with a big mandate: to develop, maintain, and innovate the Design Platform central to Netflix’s product development lifecycle.  Our goal is to improve product development velocity without compromising on fidelity and to increase efficiency of the design/engineering handoff.  Our portfolio includes API services, web apps, and figma Plugins, serving a diverse range of cross-functional partners, from product designers and project managers to software engineers.

In this high-impact role, you’ll work on the foundational system that powers the Netflix Design System across multiple design and engineering platforms.  You’ll collaborate closely with both designers and engineers, working with platform and product teams to drive innovation.  You'll lead and champion projects and effectively communicate their impact to partner teams. You will also gather input from stakeholders, identifying opportunities to help set a long-term technical strategy that continuously evolves the design platform to ensure it remains best-in-class.

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

Who You Are

• 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

Even Better

• 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

Compensation Range

Generally, our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is  $100,000 - $720,000

Benefits

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer 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. See more detail about our Benefits . Netflix is a unique culture and environment.  Learn more .

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.