Distributed Systems Engineer (L5) - Cloud Engineering

Netflix is one of the world's leading streaming entertainment services with over 260 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.

Netflix has been on the leading edge of the cloud since beginning the migration to AWS 15 years ago and runs one of the largest Cloud footprints around. The Cloud Engineering organization exists to manage that massive scale, constantly innovating to increase fleet-wide agility, efficiency, and reliability of the Netflix cloud infrastructure, while solving scale problems that we are the first to ever hit. We build, operate, and maintain Compute, Network and Storage services so that developers at Netflix can rely on foundational building blocks when entertaining hundreds of millions of customers around the world. Join us as we push the boundaries of performance and resilience, empowering developers to create groundbreaking applications on a reliable platform.

We are looking to add new stunning colleagues to the teams outlined below.

Team Spotlights

Compute Abstractions

At Netflix, every engineer is responsible for building and delivering highly efficient, highly scalable products that meet a variety of business needs. In Compute Abstractions, we believe getting up and running in the cloud quickly should be the easiest step when setting out to solve some of the most interesting and complex problems in streaming today. Whatever your computing needs, GPUs, long running services, or batch computing over many hours, we take the guesswork out of selection so you can trust you have the power and resources required to get the job done.

Must-have skills

• 7+ years of professional Software Engineering experience, preferably with recent technical leadership

• Recent and proficient experience with Java, C++, Go, Python, or similar

• Experience building & operating highly reliable Distributed Systems in a cloud environment

• Passion for technology, pragmatic thinking, ability to jump into an ambiguous area and break down complex problems

What you'll be doing

• Building and operating Services, APIs, and Tooling for a variety of use-cases

• Balancing bias to action with the ability to make well-informed bets

• Engaging directly with end engineering users to understand their needs and improve their experience

• Understanding and solving business needs at scale with high-quality solutions

• Leaning into proactiveness and effective communication in pursuit of cross-functional alignment

Success criteria

• You thrive in ambiguity; complex and fuzzy requirements are more common than clearly defined customer expectations

• You take incremental steps toward solving big problems; test and learn approaches work better than heads down development

• You are independent and self driven; progress is often self-directed by teams & individuals 

• You’ve read about Netflix’s culture and think you would thrive here

Here are a few recent talks and posts from members of the team to highlight the work we do:

Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding

How Netflix uses eBPF Flow logs

NATless IPv6/IPv4 Address Translation

Consistent caching mechanisms in Titus Gateway

Netflix Drive 

Zero Configuration Service Mesh with On-Demand Cluster Discovery

Does this sound interesting? Or does this sound interesting-but-intimidating? Please don’t self-select out, let’s figure it out together. We’d love to talk to you!

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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 $100,000 - $720,000.

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.