Netflix

Distributed Systems Engineer 5 - Pricing, Catalog and Offers

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Base Salary

$349k - $557k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build product-facing features and platform infrastructure for Netflix’s pricing, catalog, promotional targeting, and subscription commerce systems.
  • Design and operate resilient, low-latency distributed systems handling high request volumes and global scale.
  • Address race conditions, consistency guarantees, distributed transactions, and throughput optimization.
  • Evolve infrastructure supporting Netflix’s expanding commerce surface, including ads, games, and live streaming.
  • Own production reliability end-to-end and participate in on-call and incident response for Tier-0 services.
  • Lead complex engineering projects from inception to delivery and communicate technical trade-offs to cross-functional partners.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience building resilient, high-scale, low-latency distributed systems in production.
  • Experience translating ambiguous business requirements into scalable and maintainable technical solutions.
  • Experience handling race conditions, eventual consistency, distributed transactions, and other correctness problems.
  • Demonstrated ownership of a technical domain and leadership of complex engineering projects.
  • Strong cross-functional communication skills and ability to explain technical trade-offs to non-engineering partners.
  • Preferred experience with Java, Kotlin, C#, Scala, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Hive, AWS, Presto, Spark SQL, Apache Flink, gRPC, GraphQL, SQL and NoSQL multi-region data stores, Cassandra, Amazon Aurora, and Memcached.
  • Preferred experience with production on-call responsibilities and Tier-0 incident response.
  • A bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field is preferred.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health plans and mental health support.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
  • Stock option program, disability programs, health savings and flexible spending accounts.
  • Family-forming benefits and life and serious injury benefits.
  • Paid leave programs; full-time salaried employees receive flexible time off immediately.
  • Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off.
  • Full-time role with compensation varying based on location.

Tech Stack

Apache CassandraApache FlinkApache HiveApache KafkaAWSC#ElasticsearchGraphQLgRPCJavaKotlinPrestoScalaSQL

Categories

Netflix

About Netflix

10,000+ employees

Netflix builds and operates a global streaming service for TV series, films, games, and live programming, and produces original content through its in-house studio. It serves consumers in 190+ countries via subscription and ad-supported plans on internet-connected devices. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Los Gatos, California, Netflix is a public company traded on NASDAQ (NFLX).

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