Netflix is looking to build tools and platforms that help game developers build, debug, and ship great games for Netflix members. The Games Developer Tools team needs a full-stack engineer focused on developer-facing tools and workflows that game teams rely on every day.
Requirements
- 6+ years of full stack development experience building and operating production systems
- Modern frontend experience, ideally with React and TypeScript
- Backend experience with at least one of: JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js), Java, Python, plus familiarity with GraphQL or similar API technologies
- End‑to‑end ownership of features: data models and persistence, API/service design, UI implementation, and instrumentation (metrics, logs, traces)
- Developer‑facing tooling experience (e.g., developer portals, dashboards, configuration consoles, debugging tools, or editors)
- UX iteration with technical users: gathering feedback from developers, shipping improvements, and measuring impact
- API design and integration experience, including clean, versioned APIs used by web UIs, CLIs, game engines, or services
Responsibilities
- build tools and platforms that help game developers build, debug, and ship great games for Netflix members
- focused on developer‑facing tools and workflows that game teams rely on every day
- owning intuitive UIs, flows, and integrations backed by robust APIs and services
- working closely with game developers to shape product direction and owning features end to end—from data model and API design through UI and instrumentation
- building and operating production systems
- End‑to‑end ownership of features: data models and persistence, API/service design, UI implementation, and instrumentation (metrics, logs, traces)
- Operationally thoughtful running live tools/services: observability, production debugging, and attention to stability, usability, and backwards compatibility
Other
- Developer‑focused with a product mindset
- An end‑to‑end owner
- Independent and highly collaborative
- We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams.
- Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses.
