Senior Software Engineer L5 - Testing Tools and Infrastructure

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.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer with a demonstrated ability to build and enhance language-agnostic testing tools and telemetry which scales to meet the demand of millions of test runs per month.

Our ideal candidate is passionate about developer productivity, and thrives on the satisfaction of empowering thousands of Netflix engineers worldwide to quickly and comprehensively test their software. They are excited to leverage their experience building and maintaining automated testing and resilience platforms to provide long-term benefits.

For this role, we offer relocation support for candidates based outside of Warsaw, Poland.

Key responsibilities

Common languages and tools : Java, Python, Spring Boot, GraphQL, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and Gradle

Implement and manage software solutions that provide accurate and efficient analysis of test runs

Create and maintain tools for framework-agnostic analysis of distributed tracing tools for test runs

Develop and integrate software solutions which provide high-quality synthetic test data generated from captured production traffic and API schema registries

Integrate internal and vendor-provided distributed test execution infrastructure into engineering workflows with a focus on reliability and ease of use

Design and develop tools and infrastructure to automatically detect, quarantine, and reproduce flaky tests

Correlate test coverage data with code changes, runtime execution, and trace data for comprehensive reporting

Maintain a strong focus on scalability, usability, and reliability in platform design to support a growing cohort of stunning engineers

Stay informed about industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure Netflix remains at the forefront of testing infrastructure

Who you are

A stunning software engineer with experience working on developer platform or productivity teams

A meticulous software designer who researches and documents technical tradeoffs clearly and concisely

A self-motivated and organized individual who can independently drive engineering-wide solutions

A proactive communicator who engages effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders

An advocate for a strong testing culture, having familiarity with popular test frameworks, code coverage tools, continuous integration systems, and post-deployment verification methods (healthy contempt for flaky tests is a plus)

Experience we’d be excited about

You have shipped and maintained Java, JavaScript, Python, or Golang code in production

You have designed and implemented metrics data pipelines

You have assembled JVM Spring Boot applications using Gradle

You have generated and analyzed Zipkin traces

You have implemented advanced log, metric, or error stack trace analysis

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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.