Software Engineer 5

The Challenge: At Netflix, we are passionate about delivering the best visual quality experience to our members, no matter what, where and how, they watch, interact or play. We care about video quality, not only on our video-on-demand (VoD) and LIVE products, but also on our Cloud Gaming platform, where we bring a new kind of joy to our millions of members worldwide. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with media expertise who is adept at working with encoder hardware and software, and is skilled at maximizing hardware performance through firmware, software and architecture innovations. The Role: As a Senior Software Engineer in Video Algorithms working on Cloud Gaming: You will be responsible for designing, prototyping and implementing encoding algorithms and software workflows that power Netflix cloud games. You will find innovative solutions for cost-efficient use of hardware and network resources through intelligent designs that tradeoff between render quality, encoding quality, latency and network conditions. You will ideate and prototype high-risk-high-reward solutions that address concerns that are unique to the Netflix approach to cloud gaming. You will work with external vendors and guide their future development in the area of low-latency encoding in directions that are mutually beneficial. You will work on exciting video encoding, rendering and transmission problems while knowing that you are making Netflix games smoother, crisper and more engaging for millions of people worldwide. About You: You are a Senior Software Engineer who: thrives in a fast-paced environment works effectively with cross functional teams constantly seeks to improve yourself and the team has excellent software development skills and a successful track record in Real-time Video Encoding or adjacent fields such as Computer Graphics, Networks & Transport or Video Quality with contributions to products has the ability to see areas for improvements in existing systems, and is capable of conceiving and executing solutions for such improvements iteratively is excited to apply your expertise to a product that touches millions of lives everyday Minimum

qualifications:
5+ years experience in multimedia software development for real-time systems, with excellent debugging and problem solving skills. BS in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering or equivalent. MS or PhD a plus. Shown proficiency in C++, C, Go, or object-oriented programming. Solid understanding of video compression and processing, including codec standards such as H.264/AVC, HEVC and AV1. Solid understanding of real-time image and signal processing Bonus points: Experience with cloud gaming Experience with software performance optimization on constrained hardware Experience with hardware video encoders and SoCs Involvement in open-source multimedia projects (such as ffmpeg, x264, avisynth, webm) Experience with image and video quality assessment Learn more about our team and the work we’ve done outside of Cloud Gaming: https://netflixtechblog.com/av1-now-powering-30-of-netflix-streaming-02f592242d80 https://netflixtechblog.com/av1-scale-film-grain-synthesis-the-awakening-ee09cfdff40b https://netflixtechblog.com/hdr10-now-streaming-on-netflix-c9ab1f4bd72b https://netflixtechblog.com/rebuilding-netflix-video-processing-pipeline-with-microservices-4e5e6310e359 https://netflixtechblog.com/all-of-netflixs-hdr-video-streaming-is-now-dynamically-optimized-e9e0cb15f2ba https://netflixtechblog.com/for-your-eyes-only-improving-netflix-video-quality-with-neural-networks-5b8d032da09c Learn more about Netflix’s Gaming efforts: https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/new-netflix-games-play-on-tv-2025 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/netflix_were-creating-a-completely-new-way-to-play-activity-7382077927875825664-zjIP/ https://www.netflix.com/tudum/games