Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Netflix is a company that aims to entertain the world by merging creativity with cutting-edge technology. They are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to act as a technical authority on client-server API design and GraphQL, focusing on evolving their API paradigms and collaborating with various engineering teams.
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
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.