Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Netflix is a leading entertainment company that aims to push the boundaries of storytelling and technology. They are seeking a Distributed Systems Engineer to work on their Pricing, Catalog and Offers team, focusing on building resilient, high-scale distributed systems that support member subscription transactions for millions of users. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance commerce experiences and ensuring production reliability of critical services.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
Skills
- 10+ years of experience building resilient, high-scale, low-latency distributed systems in production
- Thrive in ambiguity, possessing a platform mindset that allows you to easily translate vague business directives into clear, scalable, and maintainable technical solutions
- Dedicated to operational excellence and have dealt with hard correctness problems: race conditions, eventual consistency, and distributed transactions
- Exhibit extreme ownership of your domain and have successfully led complex engineering projects from inception to delivery, proactively improving critical systems along the way
- Excel in cross-functional environments and communicate complex technical trade-offs clearly to non-engineering partners
- 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
Benefits
- 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
- Life and Serious Injury Benefits
- 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
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