Software Engineer 5 – Agent Platform, AI Platform

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 we're constantly innovating on how entertainment is imagined, created, and delivered to a global audience. Increasingly, that innovation is powered by AI — and Netflix is making a deliberate bet to become AI Native, with AI woven into how we build products, create content, and run the company. The Opportunity The Agent Platform team gives Netflix engineers the infrastructure to go from zero to a production-grade AI agent without reinventing the wheel. We own the foundational building blocks the whole company builds on: the Model Gateway (unified access to external LLMs like Claude, GPT, and Gemini), the Assistance API for conversational use cases, the MCP Gateway that connects agents to Netflix 's internal systems and knowledge, our Agent SDK, and an end-to-end evaluation stack. The work has moved well beyond chat completions. Teams across Netflix are now building agents — systems that plan, call tools, observe results, and iterate — and they depend on us for the infrastructure to do that reliably and to know whether their agents are actually any good. We're