Distributed Systems Engineer

At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. Together, we are writing the next episode - pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom and making the unimaginable a reality. We are a dream team obsessed with the uncomfortable excitement of discovering what happens when you merge creativity, intuition and cutting-edge technology. Come be a part of what’s next.

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 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 Netflix’s culture 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.

• You leverage AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate the software development lifecycle.

• You actively seek out and vet new AI-driven development tools to boost overall team productivity and operational efficiency.

Spotlight on CBP Engineering Teams:

Media Infrastructure Platform (MIP)
The Media Infrastructure Platform team provides large-scale infrastructure for content media, enabling Netflix to store, access, and process media files at scale, reliably, and efficiently to meet the demands of Netflix streaming and studio. Our products are highly leveraged by Encoding, Netflix Studio, and Content Engineering. We closely partner with a variety of cross-functional teams, including Encoding Technology, Netflix Engineering Platform, Data Science Engineering, and Content Engineering, as well as Product Managers. The team currently owns a few key products such as a polyglot application framework, and container-based executor for media-aware serverless functions with observability tools and workflow orchestration frameworks, a storage layer built on top of S3 with a set of features like file and folder solution, lifecycle management,  media sequence detection, Netflix access control, security,  client side encryption, full file checksum, etc.  Besides the cloud services the team currently owns, the team is also looking to grow into a more diverse and hybrid media processing and storage media space to meet the needs of business growth.  

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, highly leveraged, and fully managed eventing, notification and communications platform solutions to empower CBP Engineering teams. Our platform solutions are widely adopted by CBP Engineering teams, serving a wide range of internal engineering teams and impacting hundreds of thousands of internal and external business users all over the world.

Enterprise Developer Paved Road (EDPR)

Enterprise Developer Paved Road (EDPR) team in Content Infrastructure & Solutions, creating paved paths for enterprise app development across Netflix. We reduce complexity, lower developer cognitive load, eliminate operational toil for the application owner, and streamline onboarding through opinionated runtimes, tooling, and reference architectures. We're also rebuilding the developer experience for the AI era, from agent-ready tooling to AI-assisted workflows that change how internal engineers ship.

Asset Management Platform (AMP)

The Asset Management Platform (AMP) team is part of the Content Infrastructure and Solutions (CIS) organization which empowers engineers working on content and studio applications to be innovative and agile in supporting our massive global content production needs. We do that by providing scalable and resilient infrastructure to address integrated large-scale media, assets, data, and communication use cases.  The AMP team focuses on asset management. The team manages a centralized, scalable asset platform that serves as the backend for many studio applications that are used by film/TV series production teams. The scope of the asset platform is very wide, it manages assets straight from the production sets to promotional images/videos to studio related documents. Within the assets it also manages temporal and spatial annotations that enhances  asset discovery. The team also triggers and manages media pipelines that run on those assets.

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!

Generally, 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 $250,000.00 - $413,000.00.

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 details 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.