Distributed Systems Engineer 5
Core
Building Tier 0 commerce backbone services for Netflix's 330M+ members, handling subscription state, pricing, and plan availability at massive scale.
Role type
Senior IC distributed systems engineer (commerce platform)
Builds
High-scale, low-latency distributed systems for subscription management, Ads, Games, and Live Streaming commerce features.
Domain
Streaming media / E-commerce / Distributed Systems
Required skills
Distributed systems design, race condition handling, eventual consistency, distributed transactions, high-scale low-latency architecture, production on-call ownership, cross-functional collaboration, end-to-end project ownership
Preferred skills
Java, Kotlin, C#, Scala, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Hive, AWS, Presto, Spark SQL, Apache Flink, gRPC, GraphQL, RESTful API design, SQL & NoSQL multi-region data stores (Cassandra, Amazon Aurora, Memcached)
Technologies
Kafka, ElasticSearch, Hive, AWS, Presto, Spark SQL, Apache Flink, gRPC, GraphQL, Cassandra, Amazon Aurora, Memcached
Responsibilities
Design and evolve distributed systems infrastructure for commerce features, optimize throughput and consistency guarantees, manage production reliability for Tier 0 services, partner with product and data teams on growth initiatives, respond to incidents and maintain system uptime
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
