Senior Software Engineer 5 — Validation & Safety Platform

About the job

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

About the team

The Validation & Safety Platform is one of three pillars inside the new System Health, Validation & Insights Platform group in Productivity Engineering. Our mandate: catch safety and correctness regressions in human-written or agent-generated code before they reach production.

Netflix's agent fleet now writes, tests, refactors, and deploys code continuously across every domain. As agent volume grows, the constraint shifts from producing changes to knowing which ones are safe. Quality assurance can no longer be a human-gated step at the end of a PR — it has to be embedded at every stage of the developer loop, proactive and automated.

Today the team runs the validation and safety gates for the fleet: automated test generation, coverage and safeguards show teams where they stand. We're extending to other safety signals built specifically for agent-generated code, so we can judge whether a change is genuinely correct as agents write and modify code at scale.