The role is for a passionate engineer to join Netflix's Cloud Infrastructure Organization, focusing on developing and maintaining software for their Kubernetes container orchestration platform. The team is responsible for ensuring efficient and reliable container operations on a large compute fleet built on AWS. Engineers will work on innovative solutions to enhance performance and reliability while collaborating with various teams to meet business needs. This position offers a direct impact on the entertainment experience of over 300 million Netflix members.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience evolving Compute infrastructure for a large organization and a total of 8+ years of software development experience.
• Experience supporting containers and related runtimes as a service, such as Kubernetes kubelet, containerd, runc, and NRI plugins.
• Experience debugging system performance issues in a Linux environment.
• Excellent operational and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience designing large-scale distributed systems, preferably a compute orchestration system like Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in Go, Java, or C/C++.
• Understanding of networking concepts including TCP, IPv4, sockets, and host and service networking in a containerized environment.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity in a 'context not control' environment while working with high velocity.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Build and maintain the software that runs the Kubernetes container orchestration platform.
• Architect and design innovative solutions to support new workloads and features.
• Improve the reliability and performance of existing workloads.
• Develop and maintain Kubernetes and containerd customizations and plugins.
• Contribute to the upstream containerd and Kubernetes projects.
• Debug performance and operational problems observed with container workloads.
• Continuously and proactively increase efficiency and optimize the compute platform.

• 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.