Software Engineer 5 - Observability UI

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with 283 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.

It’s a fantastic time to join Netflix as we continue to transform entertainment. We deliver billions of hours of movies and TV shows per month to more than 300 million members in over 190 countries. At Netflix, we want to entertain the world. 

This role is part of the Exploration and Troubleshooting team, a crucial part of our Observability engineering group. Observability engineering provides the platform and suite of products that allow Netflix engineers to understand how and what their services are doing in real time, detect anomalies in system health, and troubleshoot and remediate problems. 

In your role, you will work across this suite of products to deliver a best-in-class observability experience to all of Netflix engineering, shape the foundational services relied upon by 3,500 technical engineers, and combine numerous observability signals into usable, actionable insights. You will particularly be focussing on the UI for our metrics product, .

Skills/Qualifications

• Experience: You have 8+ years of experience working in the software industry with at least 6+ years of frontend experience. 

• UI/UX Design: You have a strong understanding of UX/UI design principles and a passion for creating intuitive user interfaces.

• React/TypeScript Expertise: Proficiency in building scalable and maintainable applications using React and TypeScript.

• Backend understanding: You have past experience working with backend tech stack yourself and easily collaborate with backend engineers to design scalable and maintainable systems. Preferably, you also have experience with GraphQL and Node.js. 

• Testing: Experience with frontend testing frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Jest/Vitest, Testing Library).

• Experience with Documentation: Skilled in structuring documentation and possessing good writing skills.

• Strategic Thinking

  • Make decisions with regard to ROI, scaling, and sustainable practices.

  • Confident in leading operational improvements, support, automation, and ease of life enhancements.

• Product Thinking

  • You are customer-focused and relentless in prioritizing customer needs and satisfaction, ensuring exceptional user experiences. 

  • You measure and optimize performance and experience through data-driven decision-making to achieve the desired results

Behaviors:

• Mentorship mindset: You have helped grow early-career engineers. You feel a sense of fulfillment in mentoring them.

• Communicate: You are proficient in verbal and written mediums at explaining topics the audience was unfamiliar with.

• Collaborate: You enjoy collaborating with multiple teams and use your communication skills to influence product direction and keep stakeholders in the loop.

• Platform mindset: You have worked on infrastructure or platform teams where other engineers at the company were your customers.

• Provide and take feedback: Proficient at actively 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. Feel pride in delivering great work and pay attention to the details.

• Customer empathy:  A user-centric mindset, always considering the end-user experience.

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We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity 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.