Staff Software Engineer (L6), Games Platform Engineering - Games Lifecycle

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.

The Games Platform team is on a mission to delight members by building the foundational Game Platform services, tools, and experiences that bridge Gaming with Netflix technologies. This unlocks our unique superpowers, allowing Netflix Games teams to do the best work of their lives.

The Teams Are Comprised Of Three Major Areas

• Member / Player Focused - this includes SDK/API teams spanning Mobile and Cloud Games, and core infrastructure and platform services that power game experiences like saves, leaderboards, achievements, and social
• Games Lifecycle - onboard to sunset lifecycle for game developers, the bridge between game production and game release. Help Game Studios produce games from “pitch to play”, and allow those games to be promoted on or off service.
• Foundational Excellence - spanning integration engineering, quality engineering, and SREs, providing tools and capabilities for all Game Engineering teams to build quality products and services that are adopted by Game Developers and ultimately ensure resilience and a smooth player experience
  
  

This role will be focused on the Games Lifecycle domain and provide technical leadership across our Poland teams. This individual contributor will be a “founding” member of our Poland expansion and will help provide technical leadership to the teams to be built in Poland, while also acting as the cross-functional bridge within Games Platform as well as outside stakeholders and partners. This role’s position is not fixed, as there may be an initial focus on a specific domain to help the team achieve non-linear results (aka “smokejumper”).

What Will You Do

• Lead technical investments that will smoothen our transition of technology of newly formed teams
• Set technical direction for future investments in the Games Lifecycle space
• Partner with product management and design to ensure that tooling and infrastructure align with the needs of internal and external game developers.
• Product-minded IC that ensures technical direction is compatible with product direction and vice versa
• Collaborate with technical leaders across the entire Tools, Operations and Publishing, Promotion, and Production lifecycle to create a cohesive experience
• Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and building the IC technical community across Games Engineering
  
  

What Are We Looking For

The ideal candidate is a “key-shaped” engineer, with the demonstrated ability to go both broad and deep into multiple technical domains, to help engineering teams connect the dots and do their best work.

You may be a good match for this role if you;

• are comfortable with ambiguous and fast-paced technical environments that require prototyping, experimenting, and iterating (including throwing away code) to get to product-market fit.
• are deeply technical with success in setting the technical direction for engineering projects, making strategic and architectural decisions, and influencing cross-functional teams.
• are proficient with building production-quality software, either using Frontend technologies (JavaScript, React, Vue.js, iOS/Android, etc) or Backend systems (Java/Kotlin, Python, Go, etc)
• built tools and systems used by enterprise consumers, either for internal use or customer-facing solutions
• are self-driven and highly motivated to deliver critical-tiered solutions.
• are passionate about guiding and mentoring stunning colleagues.
• bonus: worked with game developers, especially within Unity or Unreal ecosystems.
• bonus: Experience with full-stack development, and usage of modern cloud-native infrastructure
  
  

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.