Technical Leader, Game Platform Engineering
6 days ago
Overview of Netflix
">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
">We are reinventing the way people are entertained by both enabling and innovating how visual storytelling is produced, discovered and enjoyed. Netflix provides a platform for stories from different places and different perspectives to reach, connect, and inspire millions of people all over the world.
In addition to great shows and movies, our membership also includes exclusive access to a growing portfolio of high-quality games. The Games Experience Engineering Organization is creating a new role to better support our Games business in releasing mobile and cloud games to thrill our members. Games Experience Engineering is responsible for building out the games platform which is composed of the member experience, the developer experience, and all of the game play services that bring them together.
About the Job
">This position will be on the senior-most individual contributor level at Netflix working across the initiatives outlined above. In this role you will identify and solve highly complex problems that impact the entire company, understand systems and practices and formulate technical roadmaps for teams, and provide executive-level technical leadership and mentorship to peers, stakeholders, and partners.
Responsibilities
">- Lead the development of large-scale game platform features to provide best-in-class experiences for our members, developers, and internal platform teams.
- Work closely with product managers, UX designers, technical program managers, and partner teams to decompose complex problems into simple, reusable solutions.
- Dive deep to completely understand problems on a variety of platforms while collaborating with cross-functional teams to provide both strategic and tactical oversight.
- Drive end-to-end architectural designs that balance member benefit, cost, and resilience.
- Partner with other Directors of Technology to solve our hardest technical challenges and have material impact on the business.
- Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues while helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.
Requirements
">- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.
- 13+ years of professional software development experience.
- 8+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
- Proven track record in developing, designing, and supporting systems used by games, for example live services and social platforms.
- Deeply technical with proven success in setting the technical direction for engineering projects, making architectural decisions, and influencing cross-functional teams.
- Expert knowledge of client and server-side development.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders.
- Able to work with senior leadership to develop a long-term technical strategy and map business goals to appropriate technology investments.
Compensation
">We offer an annual salary between $240,000 - $1,200,000 depending on your background, skills, and experience.
Benefits
">We are committed to providing comprehensive benefits including health insurance, mental health support, a retirement plan, stock options, disability programs, health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, family-forming benefits, life and serious injury benefits, and paid time off.
About Our Culture
">We celebrate diversity and recognize that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully and do not discriminate based on 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.
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