Distributed Systems Engineer (L5), Content & Business Products

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

Our Content & Business Products (CBP) Engineering teams build the products and services to optimize and automate the content creation process including content planning, financing, production, promotion, and distribution. We support Netflix's enterprise needs including Finance, Talent, Tech Support, and Customer Support to ensure smooth operations. Our products enable the entire workflow of content production, from pitch to play, and provide innovative new ways to develop and manage entertainment at scale. The team’s work is critical to supporting the creation of movies and TV series that will thrill the world!

We are looking for talented distributed systems engineers like you to help build the technologies that allow us to scale our efforts across the globe, and do so effectively and efficiently! You’ll have a direct impact on how the Netflix studio creates and promotes shows such as “Squid Game”, “Stranger Things” and “The Queen’s Gambit” on a global scale. 

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team to bring new perspectives as we solve the next set of challenges. In addition, we are open to remote candidates - we value what you can do, from anywhere in the U.S..

You will be successful in this role if you enjoy:

• 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.

• Living the Netflix’s culture and thinking you would thrive here.

Qualifications:

• 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.

Nice to have:

• 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).

Spotlight on CBP Engineering Teams:

Media Infrastructure Platform (MIP) - Cosmos Compute Team 

The Media infrastructure Platform team (MIP) provides foundational infrastructure services to other engineering teams at Netflix. We create solutions with high leverage that multiply the productivity of other teams. Our platforms act as an enabler for media processing teams. 

One of our main products is Stratum, a large-scale, next generation serverless function platform designed to handle media specific computational tasks. Stratum is the foundation of the Cosmos platform for media processing. Our team’s products are critical to Netflix— every video in the Netflix catalog has been processed by Stratum or one of its predecessors. Stratum is the primary compute platform for most engineers at Netflix in the media processing space. Stratum uses another complementary product that we develop, MezzFS, a FUSE based solution for efficiently accessing large files in S3.  Stratum pulls its work from Timestone, a large scale distributed queuing system that we build in-house. We also develop Nirvana, an observability solution for media processing workloads that run on top of Stratum.  Due to MIP’s high scale, the impact of even minor improvements to the efficiency or developer experience of our products is enormous.

MIP is part of a media-focused engineering group which provides highly available infrastructure for content production and processing across all Netflix productions and licensed content. Infrastructure pieces like massive scale media processing platforms (1, 2), workflows (Conductor), media asset management, collaboration, reporting, data movement, and data processing are some of the key services we build. All of this is custom built on top of Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure.

A few more things about us:

As a team, we come from many different countries and our fields of education range from the humanities to engineering to computer science. Our team includes product managers, program managers, designers, full-stack developers, distributed systems engineers, and data scientists. Folks have the opportunity to wear different hats, should they choose to. We strongly believe this diversity has helped us build an inclusive and empathetic environment and look forward to adding your perspective to the mix!

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $170,000 - $720,000.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including 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, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer 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. See more detail about our Benefits here.

Netflix is a unique culture and environment.  Learn more here.

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.