Netflix

Distributed Systems Engineer 5 - Content & Business Products

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Remote, United StatesStaff+
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Base Salary

$388k - $619k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate robust, scalable, highly available distributed systems and infrastructure.
  • Set technical direction, make architectural decisions, and develop long-term technical strategies.
  • Improve developer experience, observability, operational excellence, and engineering best practices.
  • Solve ambiguous technical and customer problems across engineering, product, and business organizations.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation and lead incident reviews.
  • Mentor engineers and help develop technical communities across the organization.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience crafting complex distributed systems.
  • Recent proficiency with Java, C#, or another object-oriented programming language, including object-oriented design, concurrency, multithreading, performance tuning, and observability.
  • Proven experience architecting, building, and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, and high-performance distributed systems.
  • Experience setting technical direction, making architectural decisions, and influencing cross-functional teams.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to varied stakeholders and drive decisions through written and verbal communication.
  • Preferred experience with gRPC or GraphQL API design and implementation.
  • Preferred working experience with Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Memcached, and AWS.
  • Preferred familiarity with library development and dependency-injection frameworks, especially Spring Boot.
  • Experience with infrastructure and platform product thinking, business-aligned technology investments, and AI-assisted development tools is a plus.

Benefits

  • Remote work is available for candidates anywhere in the U.S.
  • Netflix provides health plans, mental health support, a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match, stock options, disability programs, health savings and flexible spending accounts, family-forming benefits, and life and serious injury benefits.
  • Paid leave programs are available; full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off.
  • The role offers a compensation structure consisting of annual salary and stock options with no bonuses.

Tech Stack

Apache CassandraApache KafkaAWSC#ElasticsearchGraphQLgRPCJavaSpring Boot

Categories

Netflix

About Netflix

10,000+ employees

Netflix is one of the world’s leading entertainment services offering TV series, films, games and live programming across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

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