Netflix

Distributed Systems Engineer 5 - Content & Business Products

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21 days ago
Remote, United States or Los Gatos, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$388k - $619k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate robust, scalable, highly available distributed systems and infrastructure.
  • Improve developer experience, observability, and operational excellence across engineering systems.
  • Architect systems for high availability, fault tolerance, and performance.
  • Set technical direction, make architectural decisions, and influence cross-functional engineering projects.
  • Investigate complex problems and customer pain points and solve them with appropriate technologies.
  • Mentor engineers, support career development, and help build technical communities.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation and lead incident reviews.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience crafting complex distributed systems.
  • Recent proficient experience with Java, C#, or another object-oriented programming language.
  • Strong understanding of object-oriented design principles, concurrency, multithreading, performance tuning, and observability.
  • Proven experience architecting, building, and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, high-performance distributed systems.
  • Experience setting technical direction, making architectural decisions, and influencing partner and cross-functional teams.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to varied stakeholders and drive conversations and decisions.
  • Preferred experience with infrastructure or platform product development, long-term technical strategy, gRPC, GraphQL, Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Memcached, AWS, library development, dependency-injection frameworks, or Spring Boot.
  • Experience or interest in using and evaluating AI-assisted development tools.

Benefits

  • Open to remote candidates anywhere in the U.S.
  • Health plans, mental health support, a 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.
  • Accommodation support is available during the hiring process.

Tech Stack

Apache CassandraApache KafkaAWSC#ElasticsearchGraphQLgRPCJavaSpring Boot

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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