Solutions Engineer - Content Promotion & Distribution

Netflix; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 270,000 - 410,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful impact

Autonomy

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Netflix in Los Gatos/Los Angeles is seeking a Solutions Engineer 5 to join Content Promotion & Distribution, driving global content ingestion, metadata orchestration, and deliverability to streaming members. You will sit between Engineering and partner-facing teams to ensure smooth integrations and scale.

You will lead onboarding, fix schema issues, build lightweight tools, and drive improvements that reduce manual steps, while communicating clearly with partners and internal stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience integrating or supporting external partners on REST APIs.
• Strong, structured troubleshooting using logs, dashboards, and traces.
• Proficient in Python or Java and SQL.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with AI tools to speed up troubleshooting, documentation, and support.
• Curiosity, ownership, and empathy for partners.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate prospective partners for technical fit and establish integration roadmaps.
• Guide onboarding and content delivery, addressing schema/hierarchy issues and shipping improvements.
• Develop scripts, internal tools, and docs to streamline remediation and observability.
• Educate internal and external teams on platform capabilities and guidelines.
• Act as primary technical escalation post-launch and tune observability.
• Identify recurring friction points and ship small improvements to reduce manual steps.

Skills

REST APIs

JSON debugging

Curl

Postman

Troubleshooting

Python

Java

SQL

Communication

AI tooling

Incident management

Tools

Postman

Job description

Solutions Engineer 5 - Content Promotion & Distribution

Location: Los Gatos, Los Angeles

Remote Type: Onsite

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. Together, we are writing the next episode - pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom and making the unimaginable a reality. We are a dream team obsessed with the uncomfortable excitement of discovering what's next.

You will join Content Promotion and Distribution, the team responsible for driving global content ingestion across Netflix. Our platform authenticates incoming submissions, orchestrates metadata, video, artwork, and availability across downstream services, and ensures partner deliverables are validated and conformed for seamless streaming to our members.

About the Team

Behind every title a member streams is a complex content supply chain. We focus on the front door to that supply chain. Content partners deliver metadata, artwork, and media to Netflix through it, and it validates and processes that content on its way to launch. As Netflix expands into new content types and deal structures, we make delivering to Netflix the easiest part of a partner's day.

Solutions Engineers accelerate partner integrations, help partners launch with confidence, and keep them running smoothly at scale. You'll sit between Engineering and the partner-facing Operations and Support teams. You'll work hands-on with partners, and you'll fix the friction you find so the next partner doesn't hit it.

This is one of the first Solutions Engineer roles for our team. You'll help define how the function works.

What You'll Do

• Evaluate prospective partners for technical fit, lead early deep dives, and establish clear integration roadmaps prior to onboarding.
• Guide partners through onboarding and content delivery, untangling schema mismatches or hierarchy errors, crafting lightweight custom solutions when standard tools fall short, and shipping targeted improvements to unblock launches.
• Develop targeted scripting, internal tools, and operational documentation to streamline remediation and enhance platform observability.
• Educate internal stakeholders and external teams on platform capabilities, while refining integration guides and scalable workflows.
• Act as the primary technical escalation point post-launch, tuning observability infrastructure and supporting partner-specific tools.
• Identify recurring friction points and ship small, high-leverage improvements that reduce manual steps and issues per launch, using light scripting and automation to resolve issues at scale and build custom solutions that reduce the need for bespoke engineering work.
• Bring well-evidenced defects and roadmap needs to core engineering with a clear ask, and represent partners' technical needs in product and engineering discussions, so new deals don't become bespoke one-offs.

What You’ll Bring

• Hands-on experience integrating or supporting external partners on REST APIs. You're fluent with curl, Postman, or similar, and comfortable debugging JSON payloads and request/response flows.
• Strong, structured troubleshooting skills. You can reason through a workflow end-to-end, use logs, dashboards, and traces to isolate a fault, and elevate with evidence and a concrete next step.
• Working proficiency in Python or Java, and SQL. You can write scripts and queries, and read and debug an existing codebase well enough to make small, integration-specific changes.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical audiences. You can turn ambiguous partner requests into concrete technical plans and keep stakeholders informed during incidents.
• Comfort doing manual, human-in-the-loop work to unblock a partner. You recognize when a workaround is needed and tell engineers what to automate.
• Practical experience using AI tools to speed up troubleshooting, documentation, and support, with real examples of results.
• Curiosity, ownership, and empathy for partners. You care more about a partner's successful launch than about which tool got them there.
• Experience with workflow or pipeline systems, or with media or metadata ingestion, is a plus. Experience in media, entertainment, or streaming is a plus.
• Plus: Familiarity with digital image specs, media file formats and delivery workflows.

What We Offer

• Meaningful impact. The systems you support are foundational to how content reaches members around the world.
• Responsibility. Netflix offers true transparency and autonomy. Our culture is unique and is key to how we innovate.
• Stunning colleagues. You'll work with high-performing peers across engineering, product and operations who value collaboration.

Generally, our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $270,000.00 - $410,000.00.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer 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. See more details about our Benefits here.

Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.

"Inclusion" is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of 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.