Data Scientist L6 Games jobs at Netflix

What You Will Do:

• Work closely with Product Owners and Customers to design experiences that anticipate customers' needs before they do and make internet-scale engineering easy.

• Lead the design of products & services that abstract away underlying system complexities and are used by all of engineering, informing trade-offs between complexity and ease-of-use against Netflix-wide business priorities.

• Mentor all levels of Engineers in owning the implementation and rollout of complex features that have an impact across Netflix.

• Act as a liaison between Cloud Infrastructure and other organizations to ensure cohesive changes to deliver cost efficiency and low latency.

• Set the example for operational excellence, continuously improving incident response, on-call, and other operational practices.

• Maintain currency on, if not create, industry trends for new architectures, features, and off-the-shelf services; guide the team’s decision-making regarding incorporating industry trends.

Desired Skills & Experience:

• A proven track record of architecting and implementing customer-focused products (large-scale distributed systems) that define and modify infrastructure at a 100M+ user scale.

• Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.

• Demonstrated ability to drive infrastructure changes at scale

• Passion for technology, pragmatic thinking, ability to jump into an ambiguous area and break down complex problems.

• Demonstrated technical leadership to empower the team around you and gets the most from diverse stakeholders, including product managers, peer engineers across Netflix, and more.

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes + Containers and/or Networking concepts + protocols

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities effectively.

You will be successful if you:

• Shine when you have to balance complex customer, engineering, and other stakeholder needs, and are obsessed with optimizing for the customer whenever possible.

• Have the ability to define and self-manage cross-functional projects fueled by ambiguous questions.

• Are a self-starter, curious, and not afraid to ask when in doubt.

• Are a quick learner and excited about learning new technologies.

• Advocate thoughtful collaboration, take pride in your work, and enjoy taking full ownership of projects from conception to production.

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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 $360,000 - $920,000.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.

One of our main products is Stratum, a large-scale, next-generation serverless function platform designed to handle media-specific computational tasks. Stratum is the foundation of, a FUSE based solution for efficiently accessing large files in S3. We also develop Nirvana, an observability solution for media processing workloads that run on top of Stratum. Due to MIP’s high scale, the impact of even minor improvements to the efficiency or developer experience of our products is enormous.

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About the role

As an L6 engineer on MIP you will help us build and grow innovative solutions in the media compute space. You’ll work on resource scheduling in a distributed polyglot compute platform running at massive scale. You’ll gain exposure to building observable, efficient, highly available and fault tolerant systems. In this role you will have the opportunity to drive direction, own development end-to-end, manage stakeholder relationships, provide actionable feedback and insights to colleagues, and create technical solutions at scale.

About You

• You are self-motivated and can work independently. You can also partner closely with other engineers on a project.

• You are passionate about building quality products and want to own development and operations end-to-end, leading with the right architecture, and following sound engineering principles to deliver maintainable, performant, and predictable experience.

• You are a problem solver and like to challenge yourself, but you are not afraid to reach out when you need help, and enjoy helping other engineers.

• Strong experience leading engineering efforts:You should be able to work with other engineers on the team to lead large, impactful technical initiatives that may span multiple teams and orgs. This includes putting together designs, pushing the project forward to make progress, working with your manager to highlight and overcome roadblocks, and rallying your fellow engineers around the work

• Strong background in distributed systems- The majority of your time on the team will be spent working on Stratum and related services, which are part of large-scale distributed systems

• Experience operating a tier one production system to a high degree of operationalexcellence- As our platforms have matured, we need to achieve a higher degree of operational excellence than before. We are looking at developing SLOs and monitoring our system for adherence, as an example of our work in this space. Someone with skills in this space would be highly additive to our team and would make a big impact.

• Strong experience with containers and/or serverless:You should be familiar with docker and ideally kubernetes or another container orchestrator (as a power user building on top of it). Familiarity with serverless paradigms such as lambda, cloud run, etc is also very helpful.

Interesting facts

• We manage the largest compute clusters in Netflix.

• Because many of our workloads are different from typical Netflix microservices, we drive a lot of innovation in the compute and runtime platform space. For example, we precipitated and helped design the batch compute abstraction for Netflix in partnership with the team that runs Titus, Netflix K8s-based container orchestrator.

• Our functions have wildly varying durations, some run in seconds or minutes, but others in days or weeks!

• We have a spectrum of different workloads – on one end of the spectrum, there are workloads we want to run as cheaply as possible but do not have strict due dates. On the other end of the spectrum, some workloads are servicing humans in the loop waiting on results, so must run with predictable latency to meet SLOs.

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 $230,000 - $960,000.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.

The Technology Research Group is on a mission to

As the Technology Research Group Senior Design Technologist, you will identify and propose solutions for a diverse set of challenges across the company and act as a cross-functional bridge within Games Experience Engineering and outside stakeholders and partners. At times, you will drive design implementation for new prototypes using experimental tech stacks, including actively scripting (throw-away prototype code). In other cases, you give the appropriate support, collaboration, ideation, and feedback to the designated design leader of a project so they can communicate the value-add to leadership.

• Be a part of Technology Research Group staff to help shape organizational, partner, and technical strategy.

• Design and create prototypes that serve as a proof of concept for technical research. These prototypes need to be the communication piece that explains the member’s user experience interfacing with the experimental tech stack.

• Invent new UX paradigms that will help drive innovation across the organization.

• Partner with Product, XD, Internal Games, External Games, and Games Experience Engineering to advocate for significant technical design investments that will set us up for success for years to come.

• Dive deep and understand problems across the significant investments within Netflix Games, from the internal studios, transmedia, external studios, product, and engineering teams.

• Product-minded IC that ensures technical design direction is compatible with product and content direction and vice versa.

• Collaborate with ICs in other organizations (Content, Transmedia, Product, XD, Data & Insights, Internal Game Studios) to advocate for holistic solutions to balance Gaming and Netflix concerns.

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

• At least 10 years of game development experience with projects shipped utilizing R&D outcomes.

• Convey complex design concepts to stakeholders, driving conversations and decisions through written and/or verbal communication.

• Can work with senior leadership to develop a long-term technical strategy and map business goals to appropriate design investments.

• Have a proven track record in designing, building, and operating experimental systems that highlight and communicate the cool factor of sometimes esoteric technical stacks.

• Experience working with cloud gaming platforms and WebRTC technologies.

• Comfortable working in Unreal Engine, Unity3D, & Defold game engines. Preferably with shipped commercial projects.

• Comfortable working across multiple gaming platforms, including web, mobile, and console. Bonus points if you have experience working with custom hardware experiences.

• Deep experience working in prototype hardware environments, including controllers and nonstandard controller UX.

• You have deep technical art skills, visual effects, UI, UX, (C#, JS, UE C++.Blueprints).

• 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.

• Can rapidly design, document, and implement new UI/UX schemas.

• You are deeply technical with success in setting the design direction for engineering projects, making strategic design decisions, and influencing cross-functional teams.

• Are strongly motivated to learn new domains and expand your current scope.

• Are curious about discovering innovative ways to solve problems.

• Are self-driven and highly motivated to deliver critical-tiered solutions.

• Are passionate about guiding, managing, and mentoring stunning colleagues.

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 $100,000 - $720,000.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.

Responsibilities:

• Based in our Hollywood office, reporting to the management team in Content Accounting.

• Part of the team responsible for the financial integrity of the company's content commitments, assets (capitalization), liabilities (payments), and expenses (amortization).

• Prepare and review monthly accounting entries, reconciliations, CFO metrics, and other ad hoc analyses.

• Management and accounting (in proprietary systems) of content license contracts and understanding the full cost of each produced show, with a focus on ensuring appropriate accounting by researching guidance.

• Analyze content agreements and transactions (e.g. licensing contracts, talent deals, etc.), to interpret contractual terms and understand the application of our accounting policies.

• Identify and drive process improvements and own projects such as accounting policy review.

• Manage cross-functional relationships with teams outside of Content Accounting, including those across finance and content acquisition organizations.

• As Netflix continues its content expansion, the accounting and operational complexities are also growing. There are new challenges we're facing, and there's plenty of fun we're having. Come be a part of it and help make a positive impact!

Qualities We’re Looking For:

• Fundamentals of Accounting: We'd like you to have 3+ years of experience under your belt, backed by a bachelor's degree in accounting and/or finance. While not required, it’s preferred that you are on track for completion of (or have already completed) obtaining a CPA license or a postgraduate degree.

• Attention to detail + love for data - We pride ourselves on producing high-quality work, scrutinizing important numbers and formulas for accuracy, and using spreadsheets and system data to reconcile accounts and solve problems and questions; we like our accountants to love Excel pivot tables and be unphased by large data sets.

• Enthusiasm and quick learning - Enthusiasm for designing and building new accounting systems and making improvements to existing systems. Prior work with contract review (revenue, leases, or other complex documents), data entry and analysis, research, and other problem-solving tasks is helpful, but we understand you probably have never done content accounting. That’s OK with us because we’ll teach you as long as you’re excited about learning.

• Curiosity and passion - Our team members ask probing questions, challenge the status quo, make changes to improve processes, and have fun while doing it all; a positive attitude and never settling for “good enough” is key, along with adding to our unique company culture.

• You have strong communication skills (both written and oral) and are viewed as a strong cross-functional business partner. You should also have a strong accounting background and be comfortable navigating technical accounting guidance.

• Collaborate inclusively - Partner with team members and authentically recognize, understand, and appreciate differences, and connect across these differences by being mutually adaptive.

• Adaptable—You must be comfortable with an ever-changing ecosystem of content, finance, and accounting issues and projects.

• You embrace and advocate the Netflix culture and our long-term view.

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 $50,000 - $240,000.

The Role

This role is based in Warsaw and can be worked remotely. Since this role supports both US/Canada and local Poland teams,the required working hours are 12pm to 8pm local time

What you’ll need to be successful:

• A minimum of 5 years of professional support or engineering experience, particularly in Big data technologies including and not limited to Spark, Trino, Druid, Iceberg, Hadoop framework, Kafka and Flink.

• Prior experience supporting platforms built using open source technologies such as Apache Kafka, Spark, and Hadoop.

• You have worked with big data warehouse storage systems (e.g. Iceberg)

• You have at least 1 year of experience in providing technical support for Kafka clusters or other pub/sub systems like Google Cloud Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, etc.

• Ability to read and write SQL queries to pull required complex data to support any reported issues/product defects

• Experience with cloud infrastructure and/or container orchestration platform is a plus

• You have the desire and aptitude to learn how the pieces of the big data platform work together .

• Ability to adapt to new tools and technologies quickly, and a willingness to continuously learn and grow in the field of big data and data movement.

• You are a data-driven and evidence-based decision-maker

• You are proficient in at least one programming language, ideally Python and/or Java, enabling you to contribute to codebases across related domains

• Experience in developing tools and scripts to automate processes and improve efficiency, with a strong focus on continuous improvement.

• Demonstrated ability to provide superior customer support across a complex organization, with a focus on enhancing the customer experience.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an appreciation for the importance of comprehensive documentation.

• Strong collaboration skills and experience working with cross-functional teams.

• Passion for creating technical documentation and tutorials, with a deep understanding of what makes an effective knowledge base.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues in a dynamic environment

• Knack for providing proactive feedback during early development stages of a product offering based on subject matter expertise and user sentiment.

Other attributes that will excite us:

• Experience building GenAI solutions for Support is a big plus

• Experience building and maintaining mature support infrastructure

Art at Night School Studio

Our artists are the architects of immersive worlds, bringing our interactive stories to life. We create world-class narrative games where the visual experience is as compelling as the story. Each game boasts a unique art style that enhances its design and narrative, making every project a new adventure.

About the Job

We’re looking for an experienced, full-time Lead Artist to guide the art team toward a compelling and clear art direction for one of our game titles. In this role, you will be responsible for leading the team toward artistic excellence in collaboration with the game director and project leadership. You will both oversee project planning, resourcing and art execution with the support of the studio art director and a team of artists.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the game director, studio art director, and art team to drive and define the vision for the game. Responsible for championing the vision for art throughout development.

• Define and communicate needs, resourcing, priorities, and process to achieve a high-quality bar for art on an in-development game. Advocate for what the art team needs to be successful.

• Creates guiding pieces of art, documentation, and other resources to drive a cohesive and clear vision for the game’s art direction.

• Collaborate with the producers and game director to create and deliver high-level plans for discipline sprints, milestones, and phases.

• Delivers timely and accurate feedback to individual contributors on the project, working through the art team and other collaborators to execute the creative vision.

• Collaborate with external vendors, freelancers, and co-dev partners.

• Provides regular updates to managers and project/studio leadership to inform feedback to teammates.

• Represent art in meetings/presentations with partners with a high level of clarity and expertise.

• Provides mentorship and coaching to members of the art team, leading them both toward project success and individual skill improvement. Shares feedback and insights regularly with the studio art director and art manager.

Skills and Abilities:

• 10 years of experience crafting video game art, with 3 years as a Lead Artist or Art Director.

• Deftly navigates and leads through the uncertainty of game development and creative discovery.

• Extensive experience in illustration and/or 3d art with the proven ability to develop a unique and cohesive visual style in collaboration with others.

• Proven ability to visually solve problems in collaboration with the broader game team, including other artists, engineering leads, and design leads.

• Excellent written and verbal communication. Comfortable interacting with and presenting to all levels of the company.

• Excellent attention to detail and a strong desire to iterate and improve on processes.

• Demonstrated fundamentals of leadership, including clear and proactive communication, meeting moderation, and oversight of large cross-disciplinary initiatives.

• Ability to manage multiple competing tasks and be self-directed to meet deadlines in a quickly evolving environment with little to no supervision.

• Positive attitude and ability to receive and provide objective and constructive feedback.

• Ability to coach, manage, mitigate, and prioritize through stressful situations for you and your team.

• A strategic thinker with the ability to identify risks, opportunities, and innovations.

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 $120,000-250,000.

We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist with strong causal inference and experimentation experience to elevate and evolve the Messaging experience for our members. In this role, you will drive experimentation to optimize our Messaging platform, particularly for driving new business areas (e.g., Live events) and modes of outreach (e.g., WhatsApp). Working in a highly collaborative and cross-functional environment, you will be responsible for partnering with our Product and Engineering teams to identify, incubate, and enable product innovations leveraging robust measurement techniques (e.g., experimentation, modeling, analytics).

As a Data Scientist, you’ll be at the forefront of product innovation. You’ll work with other data scientists, data and analytics engineers, and product teams to drive product vision and advance measurement strategy through new metrics, methodological approaches, and deep dive analyses. This role is positioned to expand the core of our Messaging program to better support emerging business initiatives and ensure we are reaching members in a way that is effective and delightful.

In this role, you will:

• Drive product innovation through robust measurement strategies across experimentation, modeling, and analytics to shape how our members experience Netflix Messaging.

• Establish strong partnerships with stakeholders to shape a space's vision, whether by helping determine a product strategy or defining new metrics.

• Develop experimentation and measurement frameworks to increase the velocity of investments and aid complex decision-making.

• Facilitate ownership and accountability by ensuring that the team produces trustworthy, high-quality outputs that influence the decisions and direction of member experience.

• Be flexible to changing circumstances - Messaging is an area of rapid innovation, and this role will help shape what that innovation looks like.

To be successful in this role, you have:

• Advanced degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, or a related quantitative field.

• 5+ years of relevant experience focused on experimentation and causal inference, with a strong fundamental knowledge and practical experience in both.

• Strong statistical knowledge and intuition.

• Strong Quantitative Programming skills in a language such as Python or R, and data manipulation skills in SQL.

• Exceptional oral and written communication skills.

• Passion for driving product vision and innovation strategy by leveraging a broad set of techniques and building strong partnerships with stakeholders.

• Strong product sense to balance between addressing stakeholder or test-specific needs and investing in scalable solutions to serve general use cases.

• Ability to work independently and drive your own projects.

• Embodieswhile bringing a new perspective to continue to improve our culture.

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.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.