Netflix

Distributed Systems Engineer 5 - Pricing, Catalog and Offers

Netflix$388K — $500K+*
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in building resilient, high-scale, low-latency distributed systems in production.
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguity with a platform mindset for scalable solutions.
  • Commitment to operational excellence and experience with race conditions and distributed transactions.
  • Proven extreme ownership of engineering projects from inception to delivery.
  • Proficient in communicating complex technical trade-offs to non-technical partners.

Responsibilities

  • Develop product-facing features that enhance user acquisition and retention.
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and data scientists to drive growth through commerce experiences.
  • Address distributed systems challenges related to race conditions and consistency guarantees.
  • Evolve the platform infrastructure for Netflix's expanding commerce services.
  • Participate in on-call rotation, ensuring production reliability for Tier 0 services.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Health Plans and Mental Health support.
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match.
  • Stock Option Program for employee ownership.
  • Flexible paid time off for full-time salaried employees.
  • 35 days accrued for paid time off for full-time hourly employees.
Full Job Description

What You Will Work On

You'll work across the full spectrum, from product-facing features that directly impact acquisition and retention, to the platform infrastructure that makes them possible at Netflix scale.

You'll partner with product managers, designers, and data scientists to build commerce experiences that drive growth. Recent examples: our systems enabled the , helped launch the Ads-supported plan, and enabled new features for premium members.

On the platform side, you'll tackle distributed systems challenges: race conditions, consistency guarantees and throughput optimization. You’ll evolve our infrastructure to keep pace with Netflix's expanding commerce surface (Ads, Games, Live Streaming). You'll also be part of the on-call rotation for these Tier 0 services, owning production reliability end-to-end.

We're Eager to Talk to You If:

  • You have 10+ years of experience building resilient, high-scale, low-latency distributed systems in production.

  • You thrive in ambiguity, possessing a platform mindset that allows you to easily translate vague business directives into clear, scalable, and maintainable technical solutions.

  • You are dedicated to operational excellence and have dealt with hard correctness problems: race conditions, eventual consistency, and distributed transactions.

  • You exhibit extreme ownership of your domain and have successfully led complex engineering projects from inception to delivery, proactively improving critical systems along the way.

  • You excel in cross-functional environments and communicate complex technical trade-offs clearly to non-engineering partners.

Some nice to haves:

  • Working experience with {Java || Kotlin || C# || Scala}, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Hive or AWS.

  • Experience with Presto and/or Spark SQL, Apache Flink

  • Proficient with gRPC, GraphQL, or RESTful API design and implementation.

  • Experience with SQL & NoSQL multi-region data stores such as Cassandra, Amazon Aurora, Memcached.

  • Comfortable with production on-call responsibilities and incident response for Tier 0 services.

  • Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science or a related field.

Does this sound like something you'd like to do? Awesome! We'd love to hear from you.

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.
Learn more about Netflix
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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