Software Engineer 5 – Model Development and Management, AI Platform

Netflix Netflix · Big Tech · United States · Remote · Data & Insights

Software Engineer 5 on the AI Platform team at Netflix, focusing on building the user interface layer to accelerate the ML lifecycle. This role involves gathering requirements, designing, and implementing products for model creation, evaluation, experimentation, and deployment, working closely with researchers and data scientists.

What you'd actually do

  1. Experience developing platform solutions - SDKs, developer frameworks, or internal tooling used by ML Researchers, ML Engineers, and Data Scientists, emphasizing a user-first approach and demonstrating strong user empathy.
  2. Excellent software design and development skills in Python along with one of Scala, Java, C++.
  3. Experience working on or alongside modern, large-scale ML services. You understand the full lifecycle from data and features to training, experiment tracking, and production deployment, and can build tooling that makes that lifecycle faster and more reliable.
  4. Familiarity with ML workflow orchestration, experiment tracking, or feature/data infrastructure — ideally with tools like Metaflow, Airflow, Kubeflow, MLflow, or similar.
  5. Broad understanding of core machine learning concepts and their application in large-scale, real-world machine-learning systems.

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • Scala
  • Java
  • C++
  • distributed applications
  • ML systems
  • ML workflow orchestration
  • experiment tracking
  • feature/data infrastructure
  • Metaflow
  • Airflow
  • Kubeflow
  • MLflow

Nice to have

  • building machine learning models
  • building LLMs
  • designing agentic systems
  • building agentic systems
  • AWS
  • open source projects

What the JD emphasized

  • strong software engineering background
  • keen sense of software design
  • proven experience with distributed applications and ML systems
  • good communicator
  • work well in large cross-functional teams

Other signals

  • building the user interface layer for Netflix’s AI Platform
  • accelerate the core loop of model creation, evaluation, experimentation, and deployment
  • develop expertise across the full ML lifecycle
  • gather requirements, design, and implement products that help accelerate model development for different ML use cases
  • work alongside our applied researchers and data scientists
  • strong customer focus and consistently engage with our ML community to source feedback, identify pain points, and opportunities to evolve our platform