Distributed Systems Engineer 4 - Content & Business Products

At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. Together, we are writing the next episode - pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom and making the unimaginable a reality. We are a dream team obsessed with the uncomfortable excitement of discovering what happens when you merge creativity, intuition and cutting-edge technology. Come be a part of what’s next.

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.

• 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.

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