[Hiring] Distributed Systems Engineer @Netflix

Role Description

At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. Together, we are writing the next episode - pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom and making the unimaginable a reality. We are a dream team obsessed with the uncomfortable excitement of discovering what happens when you merge creativity, intuition and cutting-edge technology. Come be a part of what’s next.

Our Content & Business Products (CBP) Engineering teams build the products and services to optimize and automate the content creation process including:

• Content planning
• Financing
• Production
• Promotion
• Distribution

We support Netflix's enterprise needs including:

• Finance
• Talent
• Tech Support
• Customer Support

Our products enable the entire workflow of content production, from pitch to play, and provide innovative new ways to develop and manage entertainment at scale. The team’s work is critical to supporting the creation of movies and TV series that will thrill the world!

We are looking for talented distributed systems engineers like you to help build the technologies that allow us to scale our efforts across the globe, and do so effectively and efficiently! You’ll have a direct impact on how the Netflix studio creates and promotes shows such as “Squid Game”, “Stranger Things” and “The Queen’s Gambit” on a global scale.

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team to bring new perspectives as we solve the next set of challenges. In addition, we are open to remote candidates - we value what you can do, from anywhere in the U.S..

You will be successful in this role if you enjoy:

• Being self-motivated, working independently, and partnering with a diverse group of engineers, product managers and TPMs across different functional areas and organizations.
• Empowering other engineers by building and operating robust, scalable, and highly available infrastructures, with a focus on developer experience, observability and operational excellence.
• Thriving in ambiguity, diving deep to understand problems and customer pain points, and solving them using appropriate technologies.
• Being an evangelist for high quality code and engineering best practices.
• Assisting in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals, and helping build technical communities across the organization.
• Living the Netflix’s culture and thinking you would thrive here.

Qualifications

• Have 5+ years of experience in crafting complex distributed systems.
• Have recent proficient experience with Java, C# or other OO programming languages with a solid understanding of OO design principles, concurrency, multi-threading, performance tuning and observability.
• Have a proven track record in architecting, building, and operating distributed systems with high availability, fault tolerance, and performance.
• Have solid experience in setting technical directions for engineering projects, making architectural decisions, and influencing partner and cross-functional teams.
• Have the ability to proactively describe complex technical concepts to a variety of stakeholders, driving conversations and decisions through written and/or verbal communication.
• Participate in our on-call rotation and lead the incident reviews.

Requirements

• Have a product mindset toward infrastructure and platforms.
• Experience in developing long-term technical strategies aligning with business goals via appropriate technology investments.
• Proficient with gRPC and/or GraphQL API design and implementation.
• Working experience with Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Memcached, and/or AWS.
• Familiarity with library development and DI frameworks (preferably Spring Boot).
• You leverage AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate the software development lifecycle.
• You actively seek out and vet new AI-driven development tools to boost overall team productivity and operational efficiency.

Benefits

• Comprehensive 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
• Life and Serious Injury Benefits
• Paid leave of absence programs
• Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off
• Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off