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Company

Netflix · 1 day ago

Distributed Systems Engineer (L5) - Compute Abstractions

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$100K/yr - $720K/yr

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Responsibilities

Work closely with Product and Customers to design experiences that anticipate customers' needs before they do and make doing internet scale computing easy.

Design compute abstractions used by all of engineering, informing trade-offs between complexity and ease-of-use against Netflix-wide business priorities.

Mentor peer engineers in building, maintaining, and deploying complex features that have an impact across all of Netflix.

Drive operational excellence on the Abstractions team, continuously improving incident response, on-call, and other operational practices.

Maintain currency on industry trends for new architectures, features, and off-the-shelf services; make recommendations on incorporating industry trends.

Develop automated systems to test for regressions and performance.

Qualification

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AWSKubernetesDistributed SystemsInfrastructure ArchitectureCross-functional ProjectsCustomer-focused ProductsAutomated TestingMentoring

Required

You have a proven track record of architecting and implementing customer-focused products that define and modify infrastructure at 100M+ user scale.

You’ve driven wide change at the scale of 100’s of engineers to improve the interaction between engineers, infrastructure abstractions, and business outcomes such as cost or reliability.

You’ve architected, implemented, and owned a distributed system at the scale of 10’s of services or more, and learned from at least one notable mistake.

You’re a seasoned mentor who has helped other engineers learn new professional skills, overcome new challenges, and earn promotions to new roles.

Your peers are sad when you leave a role because everything you build is so easy to use and maintain.

Your stakeholders are sad when you leave because you so readily understood their needs that even when you had to say 'no' they didn’t feel bad about it.

You have a passion for building for ease of use for the customer.

Preferred

Experience defining compute resources at scale and understanding the challenges that configurability presents to users.

Knowledge of building on top of Kubernetes.

Benefits

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 to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off.

Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off.

Company

Netflix

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Netflix is an online streaming platform that enables users to watch TV shows and movies.

Founded in 1997

Los Gatos, California, USA

10,001+ employees

https://www.netflix.com

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