Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Netflix is a leading entertainment company focused on innovation and storytelling. They are seeking a Software Engineer 5 for the Agent Platform team, responsible for designing and building AI agent infrastructure and ensuring its reliability and observability at scale.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate the Agent SDK and MCP Gateway that Netflix engineers use to build, deploy, and run AI agents in production
- Build agents and agent infrastructure across the full lifecycle — plan/act/observe loops, tool and MCP integrations, deployment, and day-2 operations
- Make evaluation a first-class part of the platform: build the tracing, eval suites, and quality signals that let teams measure agents, catch regressions, and iterate to make them better
- Own reliability, observability, and guardrails for non-deterministic systems running at very high scale
- Lead cross-functional initiatives with ML scientists, data scientists, product managers, and other AI Platform teams
- Rapidly iterate with users to improve the developer experience while establishing durable foundational capabilities
Skills
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of delivering quality results
- Hands-on experience building, deploying, operating, AND evaluating LLM agents in production — not just chat-completion apps or prototypes
- Experience with one or more agent frameworks/SDKs (Strands, OpenAI Agents SDK, Anthropic Claude Agent SDK, LangGraph, pydantic-ai, CrewAI, Google ADK) and with tool/function calling and MCP
- Experience with LLM/agent evaluation and observability — building eval suites, tracing, and quality measurement, then iterating on results (Braintrust, LangSmith, W&B, or equivalent)
- Strong experience building SDKs and APIs for internal or external developers
- Strong fundamentals in building and operating scalable, observable, fault-tolerant distributed systems
- Proficiency in Python (and Python packaging tooling) plus one of Java, Go, C/C++, Rust, or Zig
- Experience with large-scale build, release, CI/CD, and observability methods
- Familiarity with our stack — Temporal, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes — is a plus
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
Netflix is an online streaming platform that enables users to watch TV shows and movies. It was founded in 1997, and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.netflix.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Netflix has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 65 in 2026, 310 in 2025, 309 in 2024, 191 in 2023, 261 in 2022, 268 in 2021, 225 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.