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Senior Software Engineer (L5), N-Tech Software Engineering

Netflix

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Compensation
$388–558K/yr
Location
Remote · US
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Senior Software Engineer will help shape AI strategy for Netflix’s internal employee-facing applications and build company-wide tools that improve workforce productivity. The role involves designing and operating integrated products, infrastructure, and service integrations, while partnering with engineers, product managers, designers, stakeholders, and vendors. The team focuses on applying generative AI responsibly to enterprise problems and making employees’ daily activities more frictionless.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Problem SolvingData-Driven Decision MakingPythonJavaData StructuresAlgorithmsDesign PatternsData-Layer DesignNodeJavaScriptReactSpring BootNoSQLGraphQLWorkflow AutomationLLM Feature DevelopmentRetrievalAI AgentsTool UsePrompt EngineeringAI Evaluation WorkflowsResponsible AIAI Platform DevelopmentAPI DevelopmentService IntegrationAWSGCPScalable Backend Systems

Qualifications

Software Engineer Experience

Benefits

Medical Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off

Full job description

At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. Together, we are writing the next episode - pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom and making the unimaginable a reality. We are a dream team obsessed with the uncomfortable excitement of discovering what happens when you merge creativity, intuition and cutting-edge technology. Come be a part of what’s next.

Our Team

The Productivity Experience Engineering (PXE) Software Engineering team plays a vital role in developing internal solutions to streamline employee productivity. Our goal is to make employees' daily activities frictionless and nurture their overall experience, subsequently saving Netflix time and money.

About You

You are an individual who thrives on independence, has a passion for creating high-quality products, and can form close work partnerships with engineers, product managers, and designers. You are adept at problem-solving, enjoy a challenge, and have experience building scalable, high-performing applications. You have excellent communication and collaboration skills, and, most importantly, you have experience with back-end technologies, GenAI, LLMs, and possibly even applying them to enterprise problems.

In this role, you'll help shape our strategy and vision and help us integrate AI into our enterprise employee-facing applications. You’ll be a part of the team chartered with building company-wide tools for the entire workforce and will partner with your peers to execute and deliver on the broader strategy and vision. You'll design, develop, and maintain products, infrastructure, and integrations with third-party and other teams’ services. You will collaborate effectively with myriad teams and communicate technical ideas persuasively. You influence and shape team and project direction through effective partnerships across the entire company to save Netflix time and money and enhance productivity for the whole workforce.

Responsibilities

  • Design / architect, develop, test, deploy, and operate fully integrated solutions across build/buy that provide seamless end-to-end product experiences.
  • Influence broad AI strategy and vision for internal enterprise applications.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate generative AI solutions into existing workflow systems.
  • Apply AI responsibly to solve enterprise problems for the whole company.
  • Design, build, and maintain infrastructure for modern integration methods between our applications, third-party services, and other Netflix teams' services.
  • Collaborate effectively with product managers, designers, other engineers, stakeholders, and vendors on projects within the team and across all of Netflix.
  • Communicate technical ideas and work closely with other members of the team.

We Value

  • You have strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make data-driven decisions.
  • You are passionate about engineering principles and developing tools and applications for impact with high quality.
  • You thrive in a dynamic environment where needs shift and can clearly articulate priorities and critical outcomes to your team.

Skills And Experience

  • Experience: + years as a software engineer who reliably delivers on time and at quality.
  • Passion to build internal solutions and own development of enterprise-wide applications
  • Languages and fundamentals: Strong Python and/or Java, with solid data structures, algorithms, design patterns and data-layer design.
  • Nice to have: Experience with Node, JavaScript, React, SpringBoot, NoSQL, GraphQL
  • Experience automating workflows across the enterprise
  • GenAI, LLMs, and AI Foundation: Experience building and shipping LLM-powered features (retrieval, agents, tool use, prompt and evaluation workflows), applying AI responsibly to real problems, and building shared libraries, platforms, and internal tools that other engineers use to build with AI.
  • APIs and integrations: Building quality APIs and integrating internal and third-party services.
  • Cloud and backend: Hands-on AWS and/or GCP, and scalable backend systems.

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 $388,000.00 - $558,000.00. This compensation range will vary based on location.

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 details about our Benefits here.

Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

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.

How this job compares

Set against the 8,679 open Software Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$388–558K/yr
  • US median$150–251K/yr6,511 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $473K, is 133% above the US median midpoint ($203K) — in the top quarter of Software Engineering salary ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 8,679 open Software Engineering jobs across the US. 10% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
Software Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 5 to 10 years (6,663 postings).
Education
2,292 of the 8,679 open Software Engineering jobs (26%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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