דרושים Analytics Engineer L5 - Data Management & Consumer Insights ב-Netflix ב-United States, California

In this role, you will:

• Design and develop systems and reusable frameworks for the full cycle of ML/AI R&D in the multimedia domain, including data processing, efficient distributed model training with GPUs, and deploying models into creator workflows and production systems.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with research scientists, product managers, and creative and business partners to define and prioritize system requirements.

• Work closely with ML/CV/Graphics researchers and Studio teams to productionize algorithms and models, and efficiently run human-in-the-loop inference tasks.

• Participate in model development and propose scalable designs.

• Champion and facilitate software engineering best practices within the team.

About you:

• Proven experience in software engineering within a production environment, including proficiency in object-oriented programming (Python, Java, or C++), CI/CD, etc.

• Familiarity with ML, CV, GenAI, and/or graphics pipelines, and experience with distributed data processing systems.

• Proficient in cloud infrastructure, including S3, Docker containers.

• Basic understanding of (multi) GPU training and inference for debugging and performance assessment, and CUDA runtime.

• Passionate about transforming ideas into products and enhancing user experience.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a strong ability to navigate ambiguity.

Bonus experience:

• Experience building end-to-end multimedia systems and algorithms.

• Deep experience with AWS and understanding of FSx.

• Proficiency with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow.

• Experience in the content creation domain, such as visual effects or animation.

• Familiarity with generative models and tools, such as diffusion-based models and ComfyUI.

• Knowledge of graphics and VFX tools and/or game engines, such as Unreal, Houdini, or Nuke.

$150,000 - $750,000

• Design and build scalable infrastructure solutions to enable reliable and secure access to source code, build artifacts and continuous integration.

• Develop software solutions to integrate with existing infrastructure to enhance and extend existing capabilities.

• Evolve and improve logging, monitoring, tracing, alerting and dashboarding tools to enable improved insight into our infrastructure.

• Collaborate with various other Platform teams to ensure their systems can integrate with the development infrastructure.

• Automate the deployment and upgrading of third-party solutions in order to keep them up-to-date seamlessly.

• Support customers with a variety of source control, build and environment needs.

• Support cross-organization critical change campaigns across a wide variety of source code repositories.

• Engage with vendors on license management and support issues and deliver feedback on product improvements to increase Netflix developer productivity.

• Participate in product reviews and team meetings, providing technical insight. Help scope, estimate, and prioritize between conflicting needs.

• Evaluate new technologies and approaches to streamline and improve our rapid application development tooling and conventions.

• Develop and execute disaster recovery planning and preparedness.

• Work with our security team on long-term security initiatives and promptly respond to security incidents.

• Regularly learn new systems and tools as the Netflix platform and ecosystem evolve.

• Participate in our on-call rotation and contribute to incident reviews.
  

• You are self-driven and highly motivated to deliver top-tier solutions with minimal guidance. You also recognize when you're wrong, learning from your mistakes and moving past them.

• You look beyond short-term fixes in favor of long-term solutions, make wise decisions despite ambiguity, and use data to inform your intuition.

• You enjoy collaborating and pairing with engineers to understand what they want, figure out what they really need, and finally, what we should build.

• You strive to embrace best practices and are always searching for opportunities to continually improve.
  

• You have experience operating third-party software at scale on a major cloud platform such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• You have experience with programming languages like Java, Python or Golang.

• You are comfortable scripting solutions using languages like Python or Bash.

• You have experience operating source control management systems in a cloud environment, like GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) or Atlassian Bitbucket.

• You have experience operating an artifact management system like JFrog Artifactory in a cloud environment like AWS.

• You have experience with monitoring and alerting systems and how to integrate them with existing solutions.

• You are experienced with relational and non-relational data stores.

Our culture is unique, and we live by our values, so it’s worth learning more about

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.

| RESPONSIBILITIES

• Act as a high-responsibility service owner for a broad range of enterprise applications

• Relentlessly pursue improvements, with a keen eye for how engineering solutions reduce toil and eliminate manual tasks

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure to support our services

• Develop, test, and deploy API integrations with other platforms and web services

• Implement and improve monitoring and alerting systems to proactively identify and address potential issues

• Partner closely with our Product Management and Netflix Technology Experience teams to identify support-enabling tools (i.e. self-service tools to help our Support teams scale)

• Administer, manage, and configure a variety of internal tools and SaaS applications such as Google Workspace, Slack, and Zendesk

• Partner with existing internal customer teams to assess opportunities for improvement, workflow efficiencies, and engineering solutions

| WE VALUE

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make data-driven decisions

• Passion for engineering principles and developing tools and applications for impact with high quality

• Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment where needs shift and clearly articulate priorities and critical outcomes to your team

• Demonstrated sound judgment by taking a strategic approach to solving technical problems with a holistic view of the business impact

• Collaboration and continuous improvement are fundamental to growing the team’s impact over time

• A desire to learn and readiness to mentor others both within and outside of the team

| SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• 5+ years of experience as a Systems Engineer or in a similar role

• Strong scripting and programming skills (Python, Go, Java or JavaScript/)

• Expertise administering and developing solutions for enterprise software platforms like Slack & Google Workspace

• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, microservices architecture

• Experience with low-code/no-code development platforms like Workato and Okta Workflows

• Experience with incident management and response

• Experience with employee onboarding and offboarding workflows

• Excellent communication & collaboration skills and a continuous improvement mindset

• Proven ability to cultivate relationships through influence

• Proven ability to assess complex issues and implement effective solutions

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 - $700,000.

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

• Partner closely with multi-disciplinary team members - Product Design, Content Design, Product Management, Engineering, Research, Operations, and others – to take the business to the next level;

• Work across all stages of the design process (user research, ideation, concept development, validation, workflow diagramming, prototyping, final visual design, and implementation support);

• Deeply understand users and their needs, including generative user research and exploration;

• Create beautiful, emotionally compelling, pixel-perfect mockups and prototypes of the end-to-end user experience;

• Conduct usability testing and iterate on designs with users;

• Partner with PMs to craft systematic solutions that connect the dots between user needs, data, business goals, and business strategy;

• Partner with engineers to build impactful products and features within the constraints of our technology and timeline;

• Facilitate collaborative work sessions with all levels of company stakeholders;

• Advance the discipline of product design within the organization and with partners and clients.

• 5+ years of experience in enterprise software product design;

• Track record of designing and shipping enterprise experiences that have scaled to thousands of usersand had successful outcomes for global users and the business; Ideally in the areas of GenAI or Creative Tooling

• Ability to think at a high level about product strategy and articulate a vision;

• Ability to navigate ambiguity, and drive clarity that brings the user, technology, and business together into an actionable roadmap;

• Experience connecting the dots across the organization with other related initiatives across the company while driving collaboration;

• Exceptional communication skills, in writing and verbally, whether in small group discussions, large-scale presentations, or with executives;

• Extraordinary thoughtfulness and craft in interaction design, visual design, and prototyping;

• Humble, collaborative approach to partnering with PMs, engineers, and business stakeholders to find the best solution together;

• Mastery of Figma’s advanced features such as Autolayout, Variables, DevMode, Responsive Prototypes, etc;

• Experience collaborating with machine learning and data science teams to influence algo design from a user-centered lens

• Experience working with off-shore development teams and a point of view on how best to collaborate with them.

• At Netflix, all roles are expected to exemplify the

• An outstanding portfolio, showcasing your strengths in visual design craft, interaction design logic, and the rationale behind your design decisions;

• Effective English verbal/written communication and presentation skills, with the ability to successfully articulate design concepts to your team and senior stakeholders;

• Strong ability to think technically and collaborate seamlessly with engineers and data scientists as it pertains to understanding the benefits, possibilities, and constraints of common coding languages and machine learning platforms;

• Effective time management skills to balance project schedule with fast-paced deadlines;

• Strong conceptual thinking that balances user needs, business goals, and feasibility;

Pay Transparency

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 - $515,000.

See more detail about our Benefits

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

A successful candidate will be self-motivated, quick-thinking, flexible, able to pivot when necessary, thorough, and capable of juggling multiple and diverse responsibilities with a strong emphasis on organization and an unwavering attention to detail at all times. This is a demanding and fast-moving position requiring someone who is a proactive and quick thinker that is able to exercise good judgment and excellent communication.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with the Director, VFXS to identify and strategize on the use of emerging technologies and vendor insights, crafting impactful initiatives for Netflix productions

• Develop engagement models for VFX vendors, talent, and emerging VFX technologies to foster collaboration and innovation

• Develop strategic framework to guide decision-making on key Studio initiatives by conducting analysis of key business drivers, trends and performance indicators

• Prepare valuation analyses (model building, scenario planning, etc.) to support strategic initiative proposals

• Consultant on high-priority global VFX projects, advising on critical production changes and providing curated solutions to maximize vendor effectiveness and minimize slate risk

• Lead a team responsible for key VFX Data and Intelligence Initiatives, optimizing the execution of Global Vendor Management

• Partner with VFXS Data Analyst to establish and maintain a robust data foundation, enabling efficient vendor analysis, data-driven decision-making, and automation

• Empower the VFX Vendor Management Specialist to spearhead initiatives that gather market intelligence and enhance solutions for production, providing a strategic edge for the VFXS team

• Serve as an ambassador for VFX Services globally, communicating our strategic value to stakeholders and cross functional partners

Qualifications

• Strong business strategy skills; able to aggregate multiple sources (business, finance etc) to craft proposals

• Domain knowledge of VFX concepts, practices, and procedures

• Strong written and verbal communication abilities, with demonstrated ability to work effectively across cross functional and cross cultural domains

• Proficient project management skills with a proven track record of articulating business needs, problem-solving production challenges, and delivering creative solutions while upholding team/department standards

• Familiarity with VFX trends and emerging technology, with the ability to assess impact on creative, budget, and schedule. Essentially matchmaking new tech benefits to creatively

• solution for productions

• 10+ years of experience in VFX production management roles, ideally within a studio, production company, or specialized boutique VFX studios

• Strategic experience of expanding networks and knowledge of VFX vendors

• Interest in gaining working knowledge of VFX software and tools

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 $160,000 - $360,000.

What You Will Do:

• Partner with our Game stakeholders (e.g., Netflix Games Development team, Game Developers, Game Strategy, Planning & Analysis team) on advanced analytic initiatives (e.g., prediction modeling, causal inference, experimentation etc)

• Lead the design, analysis, and interpretation of causal inference or experimentation results that shape decision-making around Games at Netflix

• Proactively discover, curate and drive impactful projects supporting strategic decisions with stakeholders team

• Drive and implement high impact projects end to end

• Present your research and insights to key stakeholders

• Work with business stakeholders to connect analysis to key decisions that affect the business to influence and drive impact to the business

• Balance handling ad hoc requests while also driving larger projects forward

• Mentor junior DS on the team to direct technical directions and ensure technical excellence on the team

Who You Are:

• You have at least 2 years of experience working in the Games industry as a Data Scientist.

• At least 8 years of experience with a PhD degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Mathematics, Engineering or a relevant quantitative field or 10+ years of experience with a Master degree in those fields.

• You have strong influencing skills and help business leaders answer strategic questions by leveraging data

• You have deep statistical expertise utilized in analyzing observational data, statistical modeling and experimentation and proficient with commonly used machine learning techniques

• You have the ability to pinpoint the most significant business needs and lead data-driven projects to inform and support these decisions.

• You are comfortable working with large data sets and analyzing complex data with SQL and other tools such as Python or R

• You have strong business acumen on product innovations and excellent problem solving skills to translate business requirements to data science problems.

• You have a strong bias to action, delivering results quickly with iteration instead of waiting for perfection

• You are a fast learner and are comfortable with ambiguous requests.

• You have exceptional communication skills and can manage stakeholder priorities directly

• Willing to mentor junior data scientists on the team to accelerate team growth.

The overall market range for this role is typically $400,000 - $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.