2 days ago
Base Salary
$499k - $900k/yr
Responsibilities
- Drive technical strategy, cross-functional roadmaps, and organizational impact beyond the immediate team.
- Build and evolve product-facing membership, pricing, acquisition, retention, and monetization capabilities.
- Design and operate high-scale distributed systems addressing race conditions, consistency guarantees, distributed transactions, and throughput optimization.
- Scale platform infrastructure for Netflix’s commerce surface across Ads, Games, and Live Streaming.
- Own production reliability for Tier 0 services, including on-call participation and incident response.
- Partner with product managers, designers, and data scientists to deliver commerce experiences.
- Coach and mentor engineers and elevate technical standards across the organization.
- Lead requirements gathering, system design, execution, and delivery.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience building resilient, high-scale, low-latency distributed systems in production.
- Experience with race conditions, eventual consistency, and distributed transactions.
- Ability to translate ambiguous business directives into scalable, maintainable platform solutions.
- Ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs clearly to non-engineering partners and lead cross-functional technical work.
- Experience driving broader strategic impact, technical roadmaps, and solutions across teams.
- Experience coaching, mentoring, and developing other engineers.
- Nice-to-have experience with Java, Kotlin, C#, Scala, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Hive, or AWS.
- Nice-to-have experience with Presto, Spark SQL, or Apache Flink.
- Proficiency with gRPC, GraphQL, or RESTful API design and implementation.
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL multi-region data stores such as Cassandra, Amazon Aurora, or Memcached.
- Comfort with production on-call responsibilities and incident response for Tier 0 services.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field is preferred.
Benefits
- Annual salary range of $499,000.00-$900,000.00, with compensation also allocated between salary and stock options according to employee preference.
- Health plans, 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 of absence programs; full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off.
- Netflix provides accommodation or adjustment support during the hiring process and is an equal-opportunity employer.
Tech Stack
Apache CassandraApache FlinkApache HiveApache KafkaAWSC#ElasticsearchGraphQLgRPCJavaKotlinPrestoScalaSQL
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About Netflix
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).