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Software Engineer L4/L5, Training Platform, Machine Learning Platform

Netflix is the world's leading streaming entertainment service with over 195 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages.

Netflix

Employee count: 5000+

Salary: 100k-720k USD

United States only

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.

Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence powers innovation in all areas of the business, from helping members choose the right title for them through personalization, to better understanding our audience and our content slate, to optimizing our payment processing and other revenue-focused initiatives. Building highly scalable and differentiated ML infrastructure is key to accelerating this innovation.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a driven Software Engineer to join the Training Platform team under our Machine Learning Platform (MLP) org. MLP’s charter is to maximize the business impact of all ML use cases at Netflix through highly reliable and flexible ML tooling and infrastructure that supports key product functions such as personalized recommendations, studio algorithms, virtual productions, growth intelligence, and content demand modeling among others.

In this role you will get to:

  • Design and build the platform that powers large-scale machine learning model training, fine-tuning, model transformation and evaluations workflows and use cases from the entire company

  • Co-design and optimize the systems and models to scale up and increase the cost-effectiveness of machine learning model training

  • Design easy-to-use APIs and interfaces for experienced ML practitioners, as well as non-experts to easy access the training platform

Minimum Job Qualifications

  • Experience in ML engineering on production systems dealing with training or inference of deep learning models.

  • Proven track record of building and operating large-scale infrastructure for machine learning use cases

  • Experience with cloud computing providers, preferably AWS

  • Comfortable with ambiguity and working across multiple layers of the tech stack to execute on both 0-to-1 and 1-to-100 projects

  • Adopt and promote best practices in operations, including observability, logging, reporting, and on-call processes to ensure engineering excellence.

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

  • Comfortable working in a team with peers and partners distributed across (US) geographies & time zones.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Understand modern and real-world Machine Learning model development workflows and experience partnering closely with ML modeling engineers

  • Familiarity with cloud-based AI/ML services (e.g., SageMaker, Bedrock, Databricks, OpenAI, etc.)

  • Experience with large-scale distributed training and different parallelism techniques for scaling up training, such as FSDP and tensor/pipeline parallelism

  • Expertise in the area of Generative AI, specifically when it comes to training foundation models, fine tuning them, and distilling them to smaller models

What do we offer?

Netflix's culture is an integral part of our success, and we approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We are an equal opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that bringing together different perspectives and backgrounds helps build stronger teams. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more details about our Benefits here.

Netflix has a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversitybuilds 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.

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

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Netflix is the world's leading streaming entertainment service with over 195 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on any internet-connected screen. Members can play, pause and resume watching, all without commercials or commitments.

A great workplace combines exceptional colleagues and hard problems.

Freedom and Responsibility

Our core philosophy is people over process. Our culture has been instrumental to our success and has helped us attract and retain stunning colleagues, making work here more satisfying.

Internet entertainment. Global original content. Product personalization.

Our first original series debuted in 2013. Over the following decades, Internet TV will replace linear, and we hope to keep leading by offering an amazing entertainment experience.

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Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

Time Away

Our vacation policy is “take vacation” and we actually do. Frankly, we intermix work and personal time quite a bit. Time away works differently at Netflix.

Paid parental leave

We recognize that one of the most special events in an individual's life is the birth or adoption of a child. Our parental leave policy is: "take care of your baby and yourself." New parents generally take 4 - 8 months.

Work, Not Drive

When it comes to your work schedule, commuting doesn’t always sync up and rush hour can be stressful. Work, not drive partners with a rideshare service that provides you the flexibility and focus on work while you commute.

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