Platform Infrastructure Engineer: Test Automation & Scale

Netflix; Los Gatos (CA); On-site; USD 388,000 - 558,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Plans

Mental Health support

401(k) employer match

Stock Option Program

Disability Programs

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Family-forming benefits

Life and Serious Injury Benefits

Paid time off

Flexible time off

Job summary

Netflix is seeking a Senior Backend/Infrastructure engineer for its Test Automation Platform (TAP) under the Infrastructure & Operations pod. You will design, build, and operate backend services that power large-scale automated testing across Netflix TV, mobile, and web apps, with a focus on reliability and cost efficiency.

You will own core infrastructure components, work with AWS/GCP/Azure, and optimize datastores like Aurora, MongoDB, and DocumentDB.

Qualifications

• Strong backend or infra engineering background with scale.
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Proficient in distributed systems concepts like latency, throughput.
• Experience with at least one backend language (Java, Go, C++, Typescript).
• Familiarity with observability, logging, and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend services and infrastructure that power the Test Automation platform, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Own and evolve core infrastructure components such as service deployment and delivery, platform datastores (Aurora, MongoDB, DocumentDB).
• Standardize and modernize service infrastructure by moving services onto paved paths for observability, provisioning, capacity management, security.
• Analyze and optimize critical systems like MongoDB for capacity, performance, and cost, including sharding, version upgrades, and data lifecycle strategies (TTL, archival, hot/cold storage).
• Improve operational excellence by tuning metrics and alert sources, enhancing dashboards and alerts, and building runbooks.
• Drive resilience and reliability initiatives such as load testing, failure injection testing, disaster recovery and high‑availability strategies, and post‑incident improvements grounded in cost/benefit tradeoffs.
• Collaborate with partner teams on paved paths, storage and compute offerings, and ETL/data pipelines.

Skills

Java

Golang

C++

Typescript

AWS

GCP

Azure

Distributed systems

Networking

Tools

Aurora

MongoDB

DocumentDB

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Netflix is seeking a Senior Backend/Infrastructure engineer for its Test Automation Platform (TAP) under the Infrastructure & Operations pod. You will design, build, and operate backend services that power large-scale automated testing across Netflix TV, mobile, and web apps, with a focus on reliability and cost efficiency.

You will own core infrastructure components, work with AWS/GCP/Azure, and optimize datastores like Aurora, MongoDB, and DocumentDB.