JobsData Scientist 5, Experimentation Platform
Job description
The role at Netflix focuses on expanding the full-stack data science faculty to enhance the Experimentation Platform. This team collaborates closely with data science and engineering stakeholders to drive innovation and maintain best practices in experimentation. The position emphasizes the importance of building and operating methodologies that support trustworthy experiments across the company. Candidates will be involved in developing new tools and maintaining existing data pipelines to meet the evolving needs of the business.
Requirements
- Advanced degree (PhD or Masters) in Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Applied Mathematics, or related quantitative field
- 3+ years experience with statistics/inference, ideally in an experimentation context
- 3+ years experience with data science languages, ideally including Python and SQL
- 3+ years building and operating applications serving internal or external production traffic
- Ability to translate mathematical concepts into clean maintainable engineering code
- Curiosity to learn new statistics, methods, optimization techniques, etc.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Able to bring clarity and life to ambiguous problems
Responsibilities
- Work closely with data science and engineering stakeholders to act as a strategic thought partner and onboard new workflows
- Design, build, operate, and maintain mathematics and engineering implementations of methodologies employed by the experimentation platform
- Facilitate data science partner contributions
- Maintain existing inference related data and analysis pipelines, including compute clusters and API services
- Develop new tooling to meet emerging experimentation-related business needs
- Proactively work with the rest of the XP team to ensure that our platform continues to deliver trustworthy and useful analysis results
Benefits
- Employees at Netflix are often offered flexible, people-first benefits—unlimited time away, generous parental leave, global family-forming support, mental-health programs (mindfulness, free counseling/coaching), and health coverage tailored by country. Financially, Netflix pays at personal top-of-market and lets employees choose their mix of cash vs. fully-vested 10-year stock options, alongside donation and volunteer matching. Convenience perks can include trust-based travel/expense policies, relocation support, and “Work, Not Drive” rideshare flexibility.
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