Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Interface Tools
Cloud and Platform Engineering
Netflix is the
world's leading streaming video service, and our growth is accelerating.
As we expand internationally, we are continually upgrading our
cloud-based infrastructure to help us scale and move even faster. This
flexibility is the key driver for our growth, while continuing to
present new and exciting challenges for our engineers to build a
reliable service within a constantly evolving environment. At Netflix,
we are pushing the limits of these technologies every day.
We are looking
for a world-class, full stack senior software engineer to join our Cloud
Interface Tools team. You will build and maintain the cloud management
and application deployment tools that we are building to run our
software in Amazon Web Services (AWS). If you are passionate about
building software that enables developers to use public clouds more
effectively, are involved in the open-source community, and love working
with and developing the latest technologies, then we are eager to talk
to you.
What you will do:
- Develop and maintain cloud deployment and monitoring systems in Java and Groovy, such as Asgard (https://github.com/Netflix/asgard), an open source cloud interface.
- Develop applications to manage deployments in AWS.
- Coordinate and scale the evolving build and cloud deployment systems across all product development teams at Netflix.
- Work with the cloud solutions team to identify and design automated solutions for our systems.
The skills we require:
- Great communication skills, both verbal and written.
- 7+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
- 5+ years of experience in robust server-side development, including Java web-based applications.
- Strong object-oriented development skills.
- Comfortable with Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and bash scripts.
- Desire to work in a fast paced and dynamic environment.
The skills we prefer:
- Experience building RESTful web services
- Experience with JavaScript frameworks like AngularJS
- Ability to improve the user experience of administrative web
applications, to make it easier for users to do their work quickly with
fewer mistakes.
- Passion for intuitive user interfaces, and the latest trends in web design.
- Familiarity with Groovy and Grails.
- Ability to diagnose, troubleshoot, and repair running JVM servers for high availability.
- Experience with AWS or similar cloud computing environments.
- Experience with Gradle, Ivy or Maven.
- Fluent in Linux: RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, or Ubuntu.
- Experience building and managing automated build/test/deployment environments.
- Experience with A/B testing.
- Active GitHub account with the main contributions you have done to the community.
Open Source Software:
The Cloud
Interface Tools team is passionate about open-source technology, both
using and releasing it. You can find some of the software we have
already open sourced here: http://netflix.github.com
Our culture:
Netflix has a unique high-performance culture that attracts stars who work well together. You can
learn more about Netflix culture here: http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664.
Our business:
Netflix’s growth
is driven by a virtuous circle of a large customer base, increasing
device ubiquity, and more buying power for our growing library of movies
and TV shows. You can learn more about it here: http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/netflix-business-opportunity-5854575
