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Role Description

The Games Developer Tools team builds tools and platforms that help game developers build, debug, and ship great games for Netflix members. As a Games Developer Tools Engineer (L5), you will be a full-stack engineer focused on developer-facing tools and workflows that game teams rely on every day.

• Own intuitive UIs, flows, and integrations backed by robust APIs and services.
• Thrive on developer experience and game development workflows.
• Work closely with game developers to shape product direction.
• Own features end to end—from data model and API design through UI and instrumentation.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of full stack development experience building and operating production systems.
• Modern frontend experience, ideally with React and TypeScript.
• Backend experience with at least one of: JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js), Java, Python, plus familiarity with GraphQL or similar API technologies.
• End-to-end ownership of features: data models and persistence, API/service design, UI implementation, and instrumentation (metrics, logs, traces).
• Developer-facing tooling experience (e.g., developer portals, dashboards, configuration consoles, debugging tools, or editors).
• UX iteration with technical users: gathering feedback from developers, shipping improvements, and measuring impact.
• API design and integration experience, including clean, versioned APIs used by web UIs, CLIs, game engines, or services.
• Operationally thoughtful running live tools/services: observability, production debugging, and attention to stability, usability, and backwards compatibility.

Requirements

• Developer insights & performance tooling: building or integrating UIs for metrics/logs/traces and making complex technical data actionable for engineers.
• Game engine & runtime awareness: familiarity with Unity and/or Unreal (editor extensions, in-engine tools, plugins, build/content pipelines, runtime instrumentation) and how content flows from engine → build → runtime.
• Desktop app experience: building and shipping Electron (or similar) apps, including auto-update, packaging, offline behavior, and OS integration.
• Multi-tenant / multi-title systems: exposure to auth, authorization, and isolation across multiple games, titles, or tenants.
• External/partner-facing tools: experience building tools used beyond a single internal team.
• Interest or experience in games: gaming industry, game dev tooling, or game production workflows.

Who you are

• Developer-focused with a product mindset: You treat game developers as customers, care about responsiveness, clear flows, helpful errors, and strong docs/onboarding, and you actively seek feedback to improve the experience.
• An end-to-end owner: You can take a feature from vague idea to design, implementation, rollout, and long-term support, doing whatever is needed (backend, UX polish, migrations, documentation) and balancing quick wins with longer-term platform investments.
• Operationally thoughtful: You understand that widely used tools need high stability, good UX, and careful versioning/backwards compatibility, and you design for observability and diagnostics to make triaging and debugging issues easier.
• Independent and highly collaborative: You’re comfortable with ambiguity, communicate clearly with technical and non-technical partners, and work closely with production, game developers, PM/TPM, design, and other engineers to identify and solve meaningful pain points.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including 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, and 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.