Distributed Systems Engineer (L4), Content & Business Products

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 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.

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.

Spotlight on CBP 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.

Media Infrastructure Platform (MIP) - Cosmos Workflow

The Media Infrastructure Platform team  is part of a media-focused engineering group  which provides highly available infrastructure for content production and processing, storage and access, across all Netflix productions and licensed content. Infrastructure pieces like massive scale media processing platforms (