Distributed Systems Engineer 5 – Enterprise Workflow Platform

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

📋 Description

• Develop technologies that enhance Netflix’s global content creation efforts efficiently and at scale.

• Design and manage a robust, scalable, and highly available infrastructure that prioritizes developer experience, observability, and operational excellence.

• Analyze complex issues and customer challenges, providing solutions with suitable technologies.

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

• Support career growth, mentor engineers, and foster technical communities.

• Design, construct, and maintain distributed systems ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and performance.

• Establish technical direction for engineering initiatives and make architectural choices.

• Impact partner and cross-functional teams.

• Articulate complex technical ideas to a diverse range of stakeholders and facilitate discussions and decisions through effective written and verbal communication.

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

• Contribute to the managed data, workflow, messaging, and communication platforms of the Enterprise Workflow Platform for Studio and Content Engineering.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Recent hands-on experience with Java, C#, or other object-oriented programming languages.

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

• Demonstrated success in architecting, building, and operating distributed systems with high availability, fault tolerance, and performance.

• Experience guiding technical direction for engineering projects.

• Proficient in making architectural decisions and influencing partner and cross-functional teams.

• Capable of explaining complex technical concepts to various stakeholders through both written and verbal communication.

• Participation in on-call rotations and leadership in incident reviews.

• A product-oriented mindset regarding infrastructure and platforms.

• Experience in developing long-term technical strategies that align with business objectives.

• Skilled 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, ideally Spring Boot.

• Experience with AI-assisted coding tools and the ability to assess new AI-driven development tools.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual salary compensation structure without bonuses.

• Flexibility each year in choosing compensation allocation between salary and stock options.

• Comprehensive Health Plans.

• Mental Health support services.

• 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching contributions.

• Stock Option Program participation.

• Disability Programs available.

• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts.

• Family-forming benefits offered.

• Life and Serious Injury Benefits provided.

• Paid leave of absence programs available.

• Full-time hourly employees earn 35 days annually for vacations, holidays, and sick leave.

• Full-time salaried employees receive immediate eligibility for flexible time off.

• Accommodation and adjustment support offered during the hiring process.