Software Engineer L5, Developer Productivity

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 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.

About the team

The Dev Spaces team’s mission is to equip Netflix engineers with industry-leading development environments and tooling, improving our ability to write, build, and deliver software with confidence and speed.

Our product portfolio includes developer tooling, IDEs, Cloud Development Environments, and AI Coding assistants - all working in tandem to seamlessly provide engineers with what they need for the task at hand.

What you’ll do

• Design, implement, and maintain developer tooling used by thousands of engineers at Netflix.

• Provide mentorship to colleagues inside and outside of the team.

• Design and implement systems to provide reasonable default tool sets for users that are appropriate for the work to be done (ex: MCP servers + rules, CLIs, IDE plugins).

• Develop strategies and technology to afford Netflix with the flexibility to keep up with the rapidly changing Developer Productivity AI space.

• Optimize the engineer onboarding experience by developing and offering Cloud Development Environments that are turnkey yet customizable.

• Move up (IDEs, some basic web UIs) and down (CLIs, the internals of our Cloud Development Environments) the stack as the moment calls for it.

What we are looking for

• You have previously maintained productivity tooling for other engineers. For example: from within a Platform, Developer Productivity, or Infrastructure team.

• You make regular use of AI coding assistants in your day to day development work.

• You’re comfortable in a polyglot environment; our team uses Go, TypeScript, and Java regularly and supports customers using many more languages. If you know one of these and are up for learning more about the rest, this role is for you!

• You have the communication skills required to collaborate with and influence teams and individuals in order to drive initiatives forward without a strict top-down mandate.

• You have a product-centric mindset that you use to understand business and user needs. 

• You employ strong senses of empathy and curiosity to build the best possible experiences for the users of your products.

• You are comfortable operating in an environment that is loosely coupled but tightly aligned towards a shared vision.

Optional nice-to-haves

While not required, you may be an especially strong candidate for this role if you have one or more of the following:

• Experience authoring MCP servers, prompt libraries, or other tooling that supports Gen AI for software development.

• Experience writing or contributing code to an IDE extension or plugin.

• Prior hands-on experience with a Cloud Development Environment (ex: Coder, Codespaces, GitPod, etc).

• Knowledge of Linux systems and tools like SSH, containers, and systemd.

• Experience developing web UIs using React.

Our culture is unique, and we tend to live by our values, allowing you to do your best work and grow. To learn more about Productivity Engineering, feel free to listen to this podcast.

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 $170,000 - $720,000.

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 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.