Systems Development Engineer 5 – Creative Compute, Storage

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

📋 Description

• Design, develop, implement, and support technology solutions for content creation at Netflix.

• Take ownership of the architecture, deployment, and lifecycle of high-performance storage platforms including Dell PowerScale (OneFS) and NetApp (ONTAP).

• Oversee file, block, and object workloads across globally distributed locations.

• Automate the provisioning and configuration of storage infrastructure using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code methodologies.

• Create and maintain observability for the storage fleet, encompassing metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, capacity and performance monitoring, as well as proactive alerting.

• Design and develop services that enhance experiences and productivity for post-production, animation, visual effects, and other creative teams.

• Develop, script, and automate solutions for production systems.

• Implement solutions and ensure they integrate successfully with existing system architecture.

• Engage in storage upgrades, data migrations, and troubleshooting activities.

• Identify potential challenges and implement solutions to ensure system reliability and stability.

• Collaborate with engineering teams, internal and external partners, technical creatives, production teams, and business and product teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in building and developing compute, storage, and connectivity tools for end-user product experiences.

• Extensive hands-on experience in operating and automating enterprise storage platforms at scale.

• Production experience with Dell PowerScale / OneFS and/or NetApp / ONTAP.

• Familiarity with SMB/NFS, snapshots, replication, tiering, quotas, and performance tuning.

• Proficient in Terraform, including modules, state management, and providers.

• Proven history of automating storage and related infrastructure provisioning.

• Comprehensive technical knowledge of large-scale computing infrastructure, operating systems, and high-performance file, block, and object storage technologies.

• Understanding of complex networking challenges at scale.

• Ability to break down intricate systems into sub-components and optimize them both individually and collectively.

• A strong passion for automation, efficiency, and scalability.

• Capability to work collaboratively with business and product teams on product plans and roadmaps while taking ownership of hands-on implementation.

• Proficient in identifying high-leverage, high-value work without needing explicit direction.

• Commitment to ongoing learning and development.

• Employ data-driven strategies, thorough analytics, and real-time insights for strategic and operational decision-making.

• Strong principles of observability and the ability to instrument storage systems for visibility into capacity, performance, and health.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual salary compensation structure with the option to choose between salary and stock options.

• 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 accumulate 35 days annually for paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick leave.

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