Software Engineer 5— Platform Modernization Engineering

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

The Platform Modernization Engineering (PME) — Migrations team exists to accelerate Netflix's ability to evolve its infrastructure by driving safe, scalable migrations across the stack. We reduce engineering toil, eliminate technical debt, and enable teams to move forward with confidence as Netflix's technology continues to evolve at pace.

We are not a feature delivery team. We are a revenue protector and accelerator — through our work we enable faster feature delivery, innovation, and security protection across the entire engineering organization.

Netflix operates one of the most sophisticated and high-scale engineering platforms in the world. Keeping that platform on the leading edge requires continuous, intentional modernization. The Paved Path — our curated set of recommended, well-supported infrastructure standards — is constantly advancing as Netflix pushes into new technical territory. Our team exists to bring the fleet along with it: setting clear baselines, accelerating adoption across thousands of services, and protecting that progress from erosion over time. We affect both engineering culture and engineering quality at scale.

We operate in pods (3–6 month cycles), partnering closely with the most strategically critical initiatives across Infrastructure Engineering. We build the automation and tooling that lets us execute these at a scale and speed no manual effort could match, including AI-assisted code modification pipelines and fleet-wide orchestration systems.

We are looking for an experienced L5 Software Engineer who thrives at the intersection of large-scale systems, automation, and cross-functional influence. You will design and build the tooling and automation that powers fleet-wide migration campaigns, partner directly with platform and product teams to de-risk complex infrastructure changes, and help define what excellent Paved Path adoption looks like in practice at Netflix.

This is a high-autonomy, high-impact role. You will own migration projects end-to-end — from scoping and technical design through automated execution, quality validation, and completion. You'll also build durable tooling that outlasts any single campaign.

Migration Engineering Design and execute large-scale code and infrastructure migration campaigns across Netflix's fleet of thousands of repositories and services. Own the full lifecycle: scoping, campaign design, automated execution, validation, and completion.

Automation & Tooling Build and extend PME's internal automation platforms — leveraging AI-assisted code modification, rule-based transformations, and batch orchestration — to scale the team's impact across the fleet with speed and reliability.

Technical Design Write clear, well-researched design documents. Identify and communicate tradeoffs between migration approaches and drive decisions with data and stakeholder input.

Cross-Functional Partnership Embed with partner teams driving the most crucial infrastructure-level strategic initiatives to deeply understand migration needs, de-risk project execution, and ensure campaigns land successfully with minimal customer toil.

Paved Path Advocacy Proactively identify opportunities to improve Paved Path adoption and adherence. Surface patterns and systemic opportunities — then act on them. Influence product strategy and roadmaps of platform teams through direct engagement and data.

Operational Excellence Instrument migrations with telemetry and dashboards. Monitor fleet health, track adoption rates, and build the feedback loops that continuously improve