Netflix

Distributed Systems Engineer 5 - Content & Business Products

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2 months 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.
  • Set technical direction, make architectural decisions, and influence engineering and cross-functional teams.
  • Improve developer experience, observability, operational excellence, fault tolerance, and system performance.
  • Investigate complex problems and customer pain points and solve them with appropriate technologies.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation and lead incident reviews.
  • Mentor engineers, support career development, and help build technical communities.
  • Communicate complex technical concepts to varied stakeholders through written and verbal communication.

Requirements

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

Benefits

  • Remote work is available for candidates anywhere in the U.S.
  • Opportunity to work on Netflix platforms supporting global content production and business operations.
  • Mentoring, technical community building, and cross-functional collaboration opportunities.

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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