Distributed Systems Engineer (L5) - Content Engineering

At Netflix we want to entertain the world and are constantly innovating on how entertainment is imagined created and delivered to a global audience. We currently stream content in more than 30 languages in 190 countries topping over 260 million paid subscribers and are expanding into new forms of entertainment such as gaming.

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.

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).

• Have application security domain experience - awareness of AuthN and AuthZ constructs.

Spotlight on Content Engineering Teams:

Ads Platform Engineering

The Ads Platform Engineering team builds the advertising systems and integrations that powers the delivery of ads using our world class content delivery ecosystem. We use a number of Netflix investments and innovations to power our ads - unique mix of client and server side ad insertions state of the art content delivery system ad encoding recipes content understanding and metadata etc. We deliver ads in a manner that’s thoughtful of our member’s viewing experience and drive great outcomes for advertisers. We also ensure that advertiser brand safety is ensured during serving members only see the most appropriate ads for them.

Content Infrastructure & Solutions (CIS)

The Content Infrastructure & Solutions team enables engineers from other Content Engineering teams to focus on business needs by addressing cross-cutting concerns related to content production promotion and delivery. The team provides a portfolio of infrastructural and platform products including: compute and storage infrastructure to enable Netflix to process store and access media at any scale easily reliably and efficiently ( Cosmos Netflix Drive ) digital asset management platform to help engineers navigate through the digital ocean of hundreds of millions of video and audio assets ( AMP Marken ) orchestration platforms to run complex studio workflows including media encoding ( Conductor Timestone ) and shared middleware infrastructure to support common engineering requirements ( Graph Search SDSP ).

Content Promotion & Distribution Engineering (CPD)

Content Promotion and Distribution sits at the intersection of the consumer experience and the Netflix Studio. Our team is integral to making the Netflix experience feel personal and relevant by building products to innovate the approaches to how we promote localize and distribute content. When our 260M+ members come to the Netflix home page we want them to feel entertained & moved by the new stories and games discovered through promotional assets tags content and consumed through subs and dubs optimized for local audiences. We are on a mission to make every word tag pixel ad scene post and article as meaningful and moving as possible for each individual and maximize the reach of each title we launch.

Studio Production Engineering (SPE)

The Studio Production Engineering team builds products to enable Netflix Studio to optimize and innovate how Netflix plans productions produces great content and manages the production of content globally and at scale to achieve operational efficiency scale economies and better decision-making through shared accurate and transparent data.

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 science. Our team includes product managers program managers designers full-stack developers distributed systems engineers and data scientists. Folks have the opportunity to wear different hats should they choose to. We strongly believe this diversity has helped us build an inclusive and empathetic environment and look forward to adding your perspective to the mix!

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 $170000 - $720000.

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 detail about our Benefits here .

Netflix is a unique culture and environment.  Learn more here .

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity recognizing that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color ancestry national origin caste sex sexual orientation gender gender identity or expression age disability medical condition pregnancy genetic makeup marital status or military service.