Distributed Systems Engineer 5 – Content & Business Products

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop technologies that enable Netflix to efficiently scale content and business operations on a global scale.

• Create and maintain a robust, scalable, and highly available infrastructure, with an emphasis on developer experience, observability, and operational excellence.

• Investigate thoroughly to identify problems and customer pain points, providing solutions through the use of suitable technologies.

• Advocate for high-quality code and adhere to engineering best practices.

• Contribute to career growth through mentoring and assist in the development of technical communities.

• Define the technical direction for engineering projects and make architectural choices.

• Influence partner and cross-functional teams effectively.

• Engage in the on-call rotation and lead incident reviews.

• Support products and services aimed at optimizing and automating content planning, financing, production, promotion, and distribution.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in developing complex distributed systems.

• Recent expertise in Java, C#, or other object-oriented programming languages.

• Strong grasp of object-oriented design principles, concurrency, multi-threading, performance tuning, and observability.

• Established history of architecting, building, and managing distributed systems with high availability, fault tolerance, and excellent performance.

• Considerable experience in defining technical directions for engineering projects, making architectural decisions, and influencing partner and cross-functional teams.

• Capability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to various stakeholders, facilitating discussions and decisions through written and/or verbal communication.

• Involvement in an on-call rotation and leadership in incident reviews.

• A product-oriented mindset regarding infrastructure and platforms.

• Experience in formulating long-term technical strategies that align with business objectives through appropriate technology investments.

• Proficient in gRPC and/or GraphQL API design and implementation.

• Practical experience with Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Memcached, and/or AWS.

• Familiarity with library development and dependency injection frameworks, preferably Spring Boot.

• Utilize AI-assisted coding tools to enhance the software development lifecycle.

• Actively explore and assess new AI-driven development tools to increase team productivity and operational efficiency.

🏝️ 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