Netflix Software Engineer - Games Experience Engineering 

United States, Oregon 

356863983

• General game engine work and debugging. You’ll be merging in new code, looking for issues, and solving them.

• Develop and maintain build systems across all major game engines and environments.

• Extend and customize game engine features.

• Be a part of Games Experience Engineering staff to help shape organizational, partner, and technical strategy.

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

• 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.

• At least 15+ years of game development experience with projects shipped utilizing R&D outcomes.

• A generalist engineer with experience in multiple areas like rendering, audio, networking, core, gameplay, AI, and general game code/engine experience.

• 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.

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

• Primary languages should be C++ & C#.

• Expert-level source control experience with either Perforce &/or GitHub.

• Languages: JS, Java, Python, Lua, Golang, Clojure

• DevOps for large applications, including performance tuning, optimization, deployment management, and capacity planning.

• Experience working with cloud gaming platforms and WebRTC technologies.

• Engage and contribute to open source communities.

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

• Expertise in developing or applying operating system execution environments, such as containers, virtual machines.

• 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.

• Strong understanding of lightweight production/team process

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

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.