Netflix Job Posting: "Iterate on a Variety of Platforms" (Wii? PS3?)

Netflix job posting for three openings for Senior Software Engineers -- Gaming Platforms, might indicate future support for other gaming platforms.

Senior Software Engineer – Gaming Platforms 
Los Gatos, CA

The Gaming Platforms team is a newly forming group responsible for prototyping, testing and building the Netflix experience for gaming consoles. Over the last ten years, Netflix has developed the world’s best personalization and movie finding technology – this team’s challenge is to bring it to gaming consoles and create a fantastic experience used every day by our growing subscriber base of over 10 million customers.

In this role we need an engineer with experience developing media rich applications on current generation gaming consoles. Candidates will be very technical, strong C++ programmers, and execution focused. 

Expect to work on a small team with a huge mandate to rapidly prototype and iterate on a variety of platforms. Only stars can get it done and your skills will be key.

I still find it hard to believe that Netflix will only support the Xbox 360, when there are 20 million Wii's and almost 8 million PS3's (source: TGDaily) that could dramatically increase the number of Netflix subscribers.

Comments

[Crow550]

That's cause Microsoft & Netflix are hand in hand together.

That are helping each other out.

Really no Netflix on the Wii or PS3? Seriously? Erg, that blows.

Nice list of devices so far: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10249727-1.html

[dAVe]

They're just now getting around to hiring people to put this together? lame. Perhaps NF should have held a $$$ Reward Competition to see which software team can hack the PS3 first.

[chris]

"needs to be strong on C++" part sounds like they're gearing up on that whole iPhone Netflix streaming that was mentioned before, as the iphone apps are in Objective C

[Wii game developer]

why would someone who's an above average engineer on gaming platforms sign up for something so boring?

besides turnover at netflix is so high, that whoever signs on to do this should go in as a contractor at an incredibly high hourly rate.

i read a horror story about netflix in an anonymous posting from an ex-netflix employee on a career website. i for one am going to steer clear of those phreaks.

[grid]

"why would someone who's an above average engineer on gaming platforms sign up for something so boring?"

i know some people who work for major game companies, and there has been significant 'contraction' in that industry in the past year.

[Fuzzball]

I've been waiting for Wii support for a while. It would be nice to stream to the Wii and then I could actually get the wife to use NF's streaming. Although, if Roku adds support for streaming ripped DVDs via NFS or SMB from my home server or adds DLNA support, I might just throw down a Benjamin for their box.

[darkfall gold]

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