Software Engineer (L5) - AV Tools & Tests

## Company Overview

Netflix is a global entertainment service that streams TV series, films and games to members in more than 190 countries.

Netflix’s mission is to entertain the world by continuously innovating how content is imagined, created, and delivered to a global audience.

## Role Summary

Software Engineer (L5) on the AV Tools & Tests team — a full‑time role focused on building hardware/software automation and measurement systems to characterize audio/video quality at scale across the global device ecosystem.

This role helps ensure device compatibility and high-quality playback on major smart TV and set‑top box platforms, working with internal engineers and external device manufacturers.

## Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and contribute to AV automation and measurement products, including front‑end and back‑end services for distributed testing platforms
• Develop and maintain automated AV tests that objectively measure and validate device AV capabilities for the Netflix TV application (including HDMI workflows)
• Integrate and extend custom HW/SW tools (e.g., device capture platforms such as Eye Patch) to enable large‑scale audio/video quality characterization
• Leverage in‑house data solutions to operationalize AV metric pipelines and enable insight exploration and monitoring
• Implement new applications from ideation through iterative experimentation to product rollout in an agile, cross‑functional environment
• Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders and external vendors/manufacturers to integrate and reuse their software frameworks, components, and services
• Drive cross‑team coordination with AV subject‑matter experts to meet common quality and reliability goals
• Advocate for automation, system reliability, and scalable test infrastructures to support broad device certification and validation efforts

## Required Qualifications

• Minimum 4+ years of professional software development experience shipping production products
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java. Script, or C/C++
• Full‑stack development experience (front‑end and back‑end systems)
• Experience building automation, test frameworks, or distributed test platforms
• Proven ability to work with internal stakeholders and external vendors to integrate third‑party hardware/software
• Excellent communication skills; collaborative, curious, flexible, and team‑oriented
• Passion for automation, reliability, and scalable systems engineering

## Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with audio/video technologies, HDMI capture, or device certification workflows
• Background working with consumer device manufacturers (smart TV, set‑top box vendors)
• Familiarity with data pipelines and operationalizing telemetry/metric data for insights
• Experience designing hardware/software integration points for automated testbeds
• Prior work in cross‑functional, high‑scale media or streaming engineering teams

## Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range: USD $300,000 — $700,000 per year (Netflix uses an annual salary-only compensation structure; employees choose allocation between salary and stock options each year)
• Health plans and mental health support
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Stock option program
• Disability programs
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options
• Family‑forming benefits
• Life and serious injury benefits
• Paid leave programs; full‑time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off (vacation/holidays/sick); full‑time salaried employees have flexible time off immediately

## Company Culture & Values

• Strong emphasis on innovation, experimentation, and iterative product development
• Values diversity and inclusion; equal‑opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics
• Culture encourages autonomy, clear communication, collaboration across domains (e.g., gaming, security, AV technologies), and a maker mentality

## Additional Information

• Location: Canada — Remote (role listed as Canada
• Remote)
• Employment type: Full‑time
• Work arrangement: Remote; role involves cross‑functional collaboration with internal teams and external hardware partners
• Application instructions: Apply via Netflix’s careers site / job posting (submit resume and relevant details through the Netflix careers portal)