Freelance Software Development Jobs in California

At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. Together, we are writing the next episode - pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom and making the unimaginable a reality. We are a dream team obsessed with the uncomfortable excitement of discovering what happens when you merge creativity, intuition and cutting-edge technology.

Come be a part of what's next. At Netflix, we want to entertain the world and are constantly innovating on how entertainment is imagined, created, and delivered to a global audience. Engineering teams within Netflix work hard every day to scale and innovate content production and member experiences in an ever-growing complex software landscape.

Our Content & Business Products (CBP) Engineering teams build the products and services to optimize and automate the content creation process including content planning, financing, production, promotion, and distribution. We support Netflix's enterprise needs including Finance, Talent, Tech Support, and Customer Support to ensure smooth operations. Our products enable the entire workflow of content production, from pitch to play, and provide innovative new ways to develop and manage entertainment at scale.

The team's work is critical to supporting the creation of movies and TV series that will thrill the world. Qualifications You have 5+ years of experience crafting resilient, high-scale, low-latency, distributed microservices in production environments. Proficient with gRPC, GraphQL, or RESTful API design and implementation.

Have recent proficient experience with Java, C#, or other OO programming languages with a solid understanding of OO design principles, concurrency, multi-threading, performance tuning, and observability. Have a proven track record in architecting, building, and operating distributed systems with high availability, fault tolerance, and performance. Have solid experience in setting technical directions for engineering projects, making architectural decisions, and influencing partner and cross-functional teams.

Have the ability to proactively describe complex technical concepts to a variety of stakeholders, driving conversations and decisions through written and/or verbal communication. Participate in our on-call rotation and lead the incident reviews. What Sets You Apart Curious about a broad range of new or unfamiliar technologies, the consumer base, and product vision.

Seek different perspectives, feedback, and relevant information to continuously grow and improve. Maintain strong relationships with cross-functional teams through clear communication. Take a thoughtful, practical approach to problem-solving that considers tradeoffs and avoids over-engineering.

Comfortable asking questions and seeking knowledge in unfamiliar or ambiguous situations. Endeavor to elevate the knowledge, skills, and abilities of yourself and others that are conducive to fostering an inclusive, collaborative environment. You leverage AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate the software development lifecycle.

You actively seek out and vet new AI-driven development tools to boost overall team productivity and operational efficiency. Spotlight on CBP Engineering Teams: Creative Workflows The Media Production Suite (MPS) Creative Workflows team sits at the intersection of filmmaking, largescale distributed systems, and generative AI. We build cloudnative pipelines that transform petabytes of raw camera footage from sets worldwide into secure, highquality, color/sound/framingaccurate deliverables that creatives rely on-typically within hours of shooting (these are the "dailies").

Dailies have traditionally been managed by human operators; we're rethinking that endtoend, using automation and generative AI in every part of the workflow-from intelligent metadata extraction and quality checks to smarter routing, prioritization, and review experiences. Source Acquisition Platform (SAP) The Source Acquisition Platform team is responsible for the applications and services touching the acquisition, management, and evaluation of assets such as video, music and effects, subtitles, dubs, and everything used to create shows and movies available on Netflix. Our suite of services is the bedrock for applications used both internally, by Netflix creative employees, and externally by our content and fulfillment partners, creative agencies, and freelancers, curating the best and largest on-demand catalog in the world.

Acquisition and Evaluation of audiovisual assets is critical for our success and to provide first-class experience to Netflix members. To achieve that, we work closely with teams in data science, encoding, catalog, and content distribution to ingest, encode, store, manage, and deploy media worldwide. A few more things about us: As a team, we come from many different countries and our fields of education range from the humanities to engineering to computer science.

Our team includes product managers, program managers, designers, full-stack developers, distributed systems engineers, and data scientists. Folks have the opportunity to wear different hats, should they choose to. We strongly believe this diversity has helped us build an inclusive and empathetic environment and look forward to adding your perspective to the mix.

Generally, our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range.

The range for this role is $388,000.00 - $558,000.00. This compensation range will vary based on location. Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including 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, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits

We also offer 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.

See more details about our Benefits here. Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner. We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams.

We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service. Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.