Netflix’s Engineering Culture

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Nov 12, 2025

In this conversation with Elizabeth Stone, CTO of Netflix and former VP of Science at Lyft, listeners gain a behind-the-scenes look at the engineering culture of one of the largest streaming platforms. Elizabeth discusses the concept of being 'unusually responsible' within teams and shares how Netflix fosters autonomy while maintaining critical guardrails. She elaborates on the challenges of streaming at scale, the innovative use of Gen AI in engineering, and the importance of continuous feedback in building a high-performance culture.

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Engineering At Trillion‑Event Scale

Netflix captures more than a trillion events daily across products and services, powering decisions and personalization.
That scale means engineering spans consumer apps, studio tools, ads, games, commerce, and more.

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Owning The Edge With Open Connect

Netflix built Open Connect, its own CDN with ~6,000 locations to place content near members for low latency and high quality.
Owning edge delivery proved a strategic advantage for new content types like live and cloud streaming games.

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Pitch‑To‑Play End‑To‑End Pipeline

Netflix describes an end‑to‑end 'pitch to play' lifecycle that starts at content greenlight and goes through encoding, recommendation and delivery.
Engineering touches every phase, making the pipeline thousands of times larger than a typical CI/CD pipeline.

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