Software Engineer 6 – Context Enablement

Netflix is a leading entertainment company seeking a Staff Engineer for their Context Enablement pod. This role involves leading a team to improve agent context delivery and ensuring a high-quality developer experience as Netflix's engineering complexity grows.

Responsibilities:

• Shape how Netflix delivers, evaluates, and governs agent context across plugins, Dev Profiles, and NECP, with a bias to action and incremental delivery in production
• Exercise judgment under change: stay current on the AI landscape, separate signal from hype, and translate what matters into durable platform improvements for Netflix engineers
• Define and evolve technical strategy for the context platform as tools, models, and organizational needs shift
• Partner with platform and domain teams to enable context producers to improve the daily agent experience for consumers
• Establish feedback loops early: engage customers, measure quality and adoption, and iterate based on what you learn in production
• Operate with agility when requirements are ambiguous: socialize options, decide, align partners, and adjust course as you learn
• Make thoughtful technical and product tradeoffs in a fast-moving AI space
• Lead and grow a team of 4+ engineers as their technical lead: set the technical bar, mentor through design and code. You believe deeply in mentoring as a multiplier for team quality and velocity, not an optional extra, and you will also share that impact across the org

Requirements:

• Prior experience leading large and/or cross-functional projects or product domains in a large engineering organization (500+ engineers)
• Prior experience on a team that builds tooling for other engineers (Developer Productivity, Platform, Engineering Effectiveness, or similar)
• Deep, hands-on expertise with agent context, plugins, and evals; strong fluency with modern agentic development practices and curiosity about where the space is headed
• Demonstrated judgment under change: you adapt quickly, make sound tradeoffs without perfect information, and improve your approach as tools and constraints evolve
• Track record of influence across teams without authority: standards, contracts, or paved paths other groups adopt
• Examples of positive impact outside your immediate team (efficiency, quality of life, user sentiment, measurable adoption)
• Proficiency in Java/Kotlin/Go or JavaScript/TypeScript
• Strong product engineering mindset: empathy for peers and customers, clarity on who benefits from your work and why now vs later
• Comfort with ambiguity, incremental delivery, and continuous learning from production signals
• A track record of technically leading and mentoring a team of engineers (formally or as a tech lead), with genuine belief in the value mentoring brings and evidence you have raised the bar for those around you
• Prior experience with Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) where engineers discover tools, documentation, and agent workflows in one place
• RAG/vector DB experience (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector)
• Backend / distributed systems experience