Software Engineer 5 – TV Developer Lifecycle, Test Infrastructure

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop and enhance the testing infrastructure that supports the Netflix TVUI CI platform.

• Take ownership of orchestration services, command-line interface tools, device fleets, and observability for extensive test execution.

• Provide support for screenshot, end-to-end, performance, and on-device testing suites.

• Ensure the operational health and reliability of the systems you manage.

• Deeply instrument systems and utilize data to inform test infrastructure investments.

• Reduce risk across a varied device ecosystem.

• Empower TV UI engineers to rapidly build, test, and launch features with quality and confidence.

• Define project scope and engage in architectural discussions.

• Identify trade-offs and establish implementation specifics.

• Work collaboratively with engineers to understand their use cases.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience managing distributed test infrastructure at scale.

• Familiarity with test orchestration and execution pipelines, including parallelization, sharding, and predictive test selection.

• Background in developing test frameworks.

• Experience in addressing test stability and mitigating flakiness.

• Acquainted with UI Test Frameworks and Automation tools such as Puppeteer, Playwright, Jest, and Vitest.

• Expertise in scaling and optimizing test performance across device pools.

• Knowledge of CI/CD systems, including Jenkins, BuildKite, and GitHub Actions.

• Strong sense of ownership regarding reliability and incident response for systems under your purview.

• Experience in optimizing the runtime performance of test pipelines.

• Familiarity with agentic PR/CI workflows.

• Proficiency in TypeScript and JavaScript.

• Ability to write well-designed, maintainable, and high-performance software.

• Strong collaborative skills and the capacity to build solid relationships.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health Plans

• Mental Health support

• 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match

• Stock Option Program

• Disability Programs

• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts

• Family-forming benefits

• Life and Serious Injury Benefits

• 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