Distributed Systems Engineer (L4), Content Engineering

2 Months ago • 2 Years + • Backend Development • Full Stack Development • $170,000 PA - $720,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Distributed Systems Engineer (L4) in Content Engineering at Netflix, you'll build and operate robust, scalable, and highly available infrastructure for global content creation. You'll work on features and applications impacting shows like "Squid Game" and "Stranger Things." Responsibilities include designing and developing microservices, data modeling, API design, and participating in on-call rotations. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, focusing on developer experience, observability, and operational excellence. The role requires proficiency in Java, C#, or similar OO languages and a strong understanding of distributed systems concepts. Experience with cloud storage, data platforms, or event-driven architectures is a plus.
Must have:
  • 2+ years experience with distributed systems
  • Proficient in Java, C# or similar OO languages
  • Understanding of multithreading, parallelism, and observability
  • Microservices development, data modeling, API design
  • Excellent communication skills
  • On-call participation and incident reviews
Good to have:
  • Experience building infrastructure and platforms
  • gRPC/GraphQL API design and implementation
  • Experience with cloud storage, data platforms, event-driven infrastructure, ontology, or workflow orchestration
Perks:
  • Comprehensive benefits (Health Plans, Mental Health support, 401k, Stock Options, etc.)
  • Paid time off
  • Flexible time off (for salaried employees)
  • Remote work option

Job Details

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with 283 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.

Content Engineering builds the products and services used by our internal and external creative partners to create, launch, and promote our global content. Our products enable the entire workflow of content creation, from pitch to play, and provide innovative new ways to develop and manage entertainment at scale. 

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 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 and working independently, while collaborating with engineers on the team and cross functional teams (product managers and TPMs).

  • Empowering other engineers by building and operating robust, scalable, and highly available infrastructures, with a focus on developer experience, observability and operational excellence.

  • Being passionate about code quality and engineering best practices.

  • Embracing and thriving in ambiguity. Complex and fuzzy requirements are more common than clearly defined customer expectations.

  • Living the and thinking you would thrive here.

Qualifications:

  • Have 2+ years of experience working on distributed systems features or applications.

  • Have recent proficient experience with Java, C# or other OO programming languages, as well as OO design principles.

  • Have a good understanding of concepts like multithreading and parallelism, as well as software observability.

  • Experience in developing microservices, data modeling and API designs.

  • Have the ability to describe complex technical concepts to cross functional team peers, driving conversations and decisions through written and/or verbal communication.

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

Nice to have:

  • Experience in building infrastructure and platforms.

  • Experience in API design and implementation using gRPC and/or GraphQL.

  • Experience in any of the following areas: cloud storage/file system, data platform, event-driven infrastructure, ontology, and workflow orchestration.

Spotlight on Content Engineering Teams:

 

Media Infrastructure Platform (MIP) - Cosmos Platform

The   is Netflix’s media processing platform. We enable innovation from experiment to productization in the media processing domain and provide an industry-leading path for quantifiably reliable, efficient, scalable, easy to use, easy to operate media processing solutions. Our platforms act as an enabler for media processing teams. Our team’s platform is critical to Netflix— every video in the Netflix catalog has been processed by Cosmos or one of its predecessors. 

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 .

Netflix is a unique culture and environment.  Learn more .

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.

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