Netflix

Distributed Systems Engineer 5 - Enterprise Workflow Platform

Netflix$388K — $500K+*
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in crafting complex distributed systems
  • Proficient in Java, C#, or other OO programming languages, with a strong grasp of OO design principles
  • Proven track record in architecting, building, and operating distributed systems with high availability
  • Solid experience in setting technical directions and influencing cross-functional teams
  • Ability to convey complex technical concepts effectively to diverse stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Build technologies for scaling content creation operations globally
  • Empower engineers with robust, scalable infrastructure focusing on developer experience
  • Thrive in ambiguous situations to understand and solve customer challenges
  • Promote high quality code and engineering best practices
  • Mentor individuals and help build technical communities within the organization
  • Participate in on-call rotations and take lead in incident reviews

Benefits

  • Health Plans and Mental Health support
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match
  • Stock Option Program
  • Flexible time off for full-time salaried employees
  • Paid time off accruals for full-time hourly employees
  • Comprehensive disability and family-forming benefits
Full Job Description
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).
  • 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:

Enterprise Workflow Platform

The Enterprise Workflow Platform team, a part of the Content Infrastructure & Solutions group, provides Studio and Content Engineering specific, highly leveraged, and fully managed data, workflow, and messaging & communication platforms facilitating the goal of the Connected Studio.

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 $388,000.00 - $619,000.00. This compensation range will vary based on 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 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.

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

About Netflix

Netflix, Inc. is an American media company founded on August 29, 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, and currently based in Los Gatos, California, with production offices and stages at the Los Angeles-based Hollywood studios (formerly old Warner Brothers studios) and the Albuquerque Studios (formerly ABQ studios). It operates an eponymous over-the-top subscription video on-demand service, which showcases acquired and original programming as well as third-party content licensed from other production companies and distributors. Netflix is also the first streaming media company to be a member of the Motion Picture Association.
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Size
11,300 employees
Market Cap
$127.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.7 billion
Founded
1997
5 Year Trend
+27.5%
Revenue
$24.9 billion
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