# Software Engineer 5 – Training Platform, AI Platform at Netflix

- Company: Netflix
- What the company does: Watch Netflix movies & TV shows online or stream right to your smart TV, game console, PC, Mac, mobile, tablet and more. Backed by IVP and Redpoint.
- Company website: https://www.netflix.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: USA - Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-08-29
- Apply by: 2026-10-13
- Apply: https://netflix.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Netflix/job/USA---Remote/Software-Engineer-L4-L5--Training-Platform--Machine-Learning-Platform_JR31231-1
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/netflix-software-engineer-5-training-platform-ai-platform/

## About the role

We are looking for a senior engineer with deep expertise in distributed model training and the systems required to operate it at scale. You will help shape the architecture of our training platform, improve performance and reliability for large training jobs, and build intuitive platform experiences for ML engineers. Our infrastructure is built on Kubernetes, Ray clusters, and PyTorch distributed training primitives.

## What they're looking for

- Design, build, and operate platform infrastructure, libraries, and SDKs for large-scale model training. Enable reliable and efficient training workflows for foundation models and generative AI models of all sizes
- Diagnose and optimize the performance of large distributed training jobs, including GPU utilization, memory efficiency, communication overhead, data loading, checkpointing, fault tolerance, and cluster utilization
- Experience with cloud computing providers, preferably AWS
- Comfortable with ambiguity and working across multiple layers of the tech stack to execute on both 0-to-1 and 1-to-100 projects
- Adopt and promote best practices in operations, including observability, logging, reporting, and on-call processes to ensure engineering excellence
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills