Senior Software Engineer (4/5), Mobile Delivery, Game Lifecycle - Games Platform Engineering

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. The Games Platform Engineering organization comprises three major areas: Game Lifecycle, Games Experience Platform, and Foundational Excellence. Game Lifecycle owns the lifecycle of a game from onboard to sunset, supporting Game Studios as they produce and develop games, and enabling the operation and promotion of games. This role focuses on the Mobile Delivery domain within Game Lifecycle. The position is part of a new team in Warsaw, collaborating with delivery platform engineers in the US to build on top of the game delivery pipeline.

Necessary for the role:

• Significant software development experience
• Strong backend programming skills in Java or comparable language like C#
• Experience with CI/CD or workflow orchestration systems such as Jenkins or Temporal
• Solid understanding of release and delivery pipelines
• Experience working on live production systems and operating own products

Nice to have:

• Experience with Python
• Experience with modern front-end development using Javascript/Typescript, ideally with React
• Understanding of the iOS and Android ecosystems
• Experience or strong interest in the gaming industry
• Understanding of devops complexities for games, including supporting game teams with tooling or build engineering

• Develop and maintain workflows for the delivery of iOS and Android games
• Design and build flexible systems to scale release management and game operations for mobile games
• Maintain and extend tooling to integrate with mobile store APIs
• Own features end-to-end, spanning UI, backend services, scripting, and other components
• Partner with Product Management and Design to reduce toil for platform users
• Help evolve Game Lifecycle systems as the organization scales from a single team to multiple teams in the US and Poland
• Note: This role does not involve writing iOS or Android application code

Examples of daily tasks:

• Design flexible pipeline configuration options for game operations stakeholders
• Build systems to automate management of device exclusions for Android games
• Audit and improve observability and alerting for critical systems
• Troubleshoot issues preventing new game builds from being processed by the pipeline
• Add validation for new ambiguous requirements announced by Apple

Netflix is an equal-opportunity employer and celebrates diversity. They do not discriminate based on 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. Accommodation/adjustment requests for disabilities or other reasons during the hiring process can be sent to the recruiting partner.