Netflix · 1 week ago
Distributed Systems Engineer (L5), Content & Business Products
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$170K/yr - $720K/yr
5+ years expNetflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, providing a platform for TV series, films, and games globally. They are seeking a talented Distributed Systems Engineer to help build technologies that optimize and automate the content creation process, supporting various enterprise needs and ensuring smooth operations.
Digital EntertainmentMedia and EntertainmentTVVideo Streaming
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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)
Benefits
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
Life and Serious Injury Benefits
Paid leave of absence programs
Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off
Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off
Company
Netflix
Netflix is an online streaming platform that enables users to watch TV shows and movies.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$63.91BKey Investors
Wells FargoTCVGroupe Arnault
2025-12-05Post Ipo Debt· $59B
2024-08-01Post Ipo Debt· $1.8B
2018-05-05Post Ipo Debt· $2.67M
Leadership Team
Gregory Peters
Co-CEO
Ted Sarandos
Co-CEO
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