The role
This VP of Engineering opening is for someone who treats Laravel documentation as a first draft they intend to improve. This FL role reads like an upgrade — $253,000 - $373,000, contract hours, 12 years valued, and a path that does not dead-end.
Key Responsibilities
- Pair-program tricky Ruby edge cases with engineers across Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Evaluate and recommend new tools, frameworks, and People Management libraries
- Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems
- Turn Netflix Studios's Kubernetes on-call noise into alerts that actually mean something
- Monitor system health and set up alerting for endlessly-iterating production environments
- Drive the React incident postmortem that stops the Fort Lauderdale outage from recurring
- Ship the mission-driven Laravel features that move Netflix Studios's technology roadmap forward
- Containerize applications and manage deployments with Kotlin and Prioritization
What You'll Bring
- An instinct for prioritization when everything is labeled urgent
- Comfort defending a recommendation in front of skeptics
- A point of view on Netflix Studios's space, sharpened by your own reading
- Proven aptitude for Ruby, ideally near Fort Lauderdale, FL
- The humility to revise strong opinions when the data argues back
- Demonstrated wins in technology work somewhere near Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Comfort navigating ambiguity when the brief arrives half-written
At Netflix Studios, the community-minded Fort Lauderdale crew believes technology should feel boring and reliable, never thrilling and fragile. Our Fort Lauderdale, FL culture runs on written context, generous handoffs, and very few status meetings.
You get $253,000 - $373,000, a robust benefits suite, and hands-on mentorship aimed at making you a stronger technology professional.
Live and hiring this very moment for the Fort Lauderdale, FL team.
Candidates who are passionate about technology should apply right away.
Skills required
- Laravel
- Kotlin
- Webpack
- Ruby
- React
- Jenkins
- Kubernetes
- People Management
- Prioritization
Why join Netflix Studios
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Company car or car allowance
- Spot Bonuses
- Charitable Giving
- Employee discount program
- Paid Time Off
- Critical illness insurance
- Travel Allowance
- Physical therapy coverage
- Backup childcare assistance
Next step
This Contract role in Fort Lauderdale, FL closes 2026-11-16.