Distributed Systems Engineer (L5), Content Engineering

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 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).

Spotlight on Content Engineering Teams:

Content Middleware Infrastructure (MWI)

The Content Middleware Infrastructure 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. The team consists of three subteams that work independently: MWI Workflow, MWI Data, and MWI Messaging.

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 sc