[Remote] Software Engineer 5 - Member API

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Netflix is a company dedicated to entertaining the world through innovative storytelling and technology. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to take a technical authority role in designing and evolving GraphQL APIs, collaborating with various teams to ensure effective API development and governance.

Responsibilities

• Evolve the GraphQL schema layer, including federation patterns, and lifecycle governance
• Own the API paradigm portfolio across client-driven, server-driven, and emerging patterns, providing clear opinionated guidance on when each fits
• Partner with device client engineers and backend domain teams to design APIs that are correct, resilient, and intuitive to consume without requiring knowledge of Member Platform internals
• Contribute to the API lifecycle from design through deprecation: tooling, guardrails, governance, and payload health
• Shape how AI-assisted (and eventually AI-driven) contributions fit into the API development workflow
• Collaborate closely within the team on shared projects and technical decisions, and align cross-functionally with product, client foundations, and partner engineering teams to ensure API investments map to real product needs
• Mentor engineers across the team on GraphQL best practices, API design principles, and resilience patterns

Skills

• Deep, hands-on experience designing and evolving GraphQL APIs at production scale, including schema design, federation, breaking-change management, and field lifecycle governance
• Strong intuition for client-server API relationships: you can reason clearly about the tradeoffs between client-driven and server-driven paradigms and know when each is appropriate
• Comfort operating in large, distributed systems, reasoning about blast radius, schema ownership boundaries, and the operational implications of changes that touch many downstream consumers
• Strong communication skills: you can write precise, clear proposals and hold productive tension with partner teams when their design choices conflict with platform principles
• Experience with real-time or push-based API patterns (subscriptions, SSE)
• Experience owning API platforms or developer-facing infrastructure where other teams are your primary customers, not end users
• Prior work on API observability, schema validation tooling, or developer experience platforms

Benefits

• 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
• Life and Serious Injury Benefits
• 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.

Company Overview

Company H1B Sponsorship