Join Netflix and help make sure that every customer finds the perfect movies to watch as we continue to expand our over 3 million customer base and our more than 55,000 title inventory. The work you do as part of a small cross-functional team will have a dramatic impact on the future of Netflix and entertainment distribution.
Characteristics of Success at Netflix:
- Strong customer orientation, both internally and externally
- Strategic thinking both technically and about the business as a whole.
- Ability to execute successfully on business strategy
- Self motivated / self starter
- Personal drive to achieve world class software development
- Desire to work in a fast- paced, evolving, growing, dynamic environment
- Love of technical challenges and the sense of pride it brings to solve them
- Ability to work well in a cross functional environment
We are looking for a experienced engineer with a leadership background in core search engine architecture, design, and hands-on development. Search is a high traffic, highly scaling software application central to the success of Netflix. Be prepared to own software that supports many requests a second over hundreds of thousands of searchable genres, movies and people, including names, titles, reviews, descriptions, and any other data that makes our search outstanding. You want to lead development of strategic software and the algorithms that software implements.
Responsibilities will include:
- Designing and developing search including matching, relevance, filtering and ordering
- Full software life-cycle ownership of new and existing systems from inception through production
- Conceiving, articulating and implementing projects in coordination with technical and non-technical coworkers for product enhancement and improvement
Skill requirements:
- 8 to 10 years of relevant software development experience
- Lead experience on search engine development in an environment where search is core to the success of the business
- Database background managing and exploiting large data sets with real-time requirements (Oracle a plus)
- Solid experience with multi-threaded Java application development and deployment a plus
- Background in adaptive systems or artificial intelligence a plus
- Flexibility to shift priorities based on changing needs of the business
- Enjoys technical challenges and constantly strives to improve existing systems
Education:
- A Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent.
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