Distributed Systems Engineer, Content & Business Products

Distributed Systems Engineer, Content & Business Products at Netflix

At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. We are pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom, and making the unimaginable a reality. Join our team, obsessed with merging creativity, intuition, and cutting-edge technology.

Our Content & Business Products (CBP) Engineering teams build and optimize services for content creation, including planning, financing, production, promotion, and distribution. We also support Netflix's enterprise needs like Finance, Talent, Tech Support, and Customer Support. Our products enable the entire workflow from pitch to play, providing innovative ways to develop and manage entertainment at scale. This work is critical for creating movies and TV series that thrill the world!

We are seeking talented distributed systems engineers to help build technologies that scale our global efforts effectively and efficiently. You will directly impact how the Netflix studio creates and promotes shows like “Squid Game”, “Stranger Things”, and “The Queen’s Gambit” on a global scale.

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and are open to remote candidates – we value what you can do, from anywhere in the U.S..

What You'll Enjoy and Do

• Being self-motivated, working independently, and partnering with diverse engineers, product managers, and TPMs across different functional areas.
• Empowering other engineers by building and operating robust, scalable, and highly available infrastructures, focusing on developer experience, observability, and operational excellence.
• Thriving in ambiguity, deeply understanding problems and customer pain points, and solving them with 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 Netflix’s culture and thriving within it.

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: Content MiddleWare Infrastructure Messaging (MWI Messaging)

The Content MiddleWare Infrastructure Messaging team (MWI Messaging), part of the Content Infrastructure & Solutions (CIS) group, provides CBP Engineering-specific, highly leveraged, and fully managed eventing, notification, and communications platform solutions. These solutions empower CBP Engineering teams and are widely adopted, serving internal engineering teams and impacting hundreds of thousands of internal and external business users globally.

About Netflix Culture & Benefits

Our team is diverse, with members from various countries and educational backgrounds. We include product managers, program managers, designers, full-stack developers, distributed systems engineers, and data scientists. We believe this diversity fosters an inclusive and empathetic environment.

Our compensation consists solely of an annual salary, with no bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation is in salary versus stock options. The range for this role is $388,000.00 - $619,000.00, varying by location.

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 salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. Learn more about our benefits here.

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

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. If you require an accommodation during the hiring process, please contact your recruiting partner.

Key skills/competency

• Distributed Systems
• System Architecture
• High Availability
• Fault Tolerance
• Performance Tuning
• Java/C# Programming
• Cloud Platforms (AWS)
• Messaging Systems (Kafka)
• NoSQL Databases (Cassandra, Elasticsearch)
• API Design (gRPC, GraphQL)