Distributed Systems Engineer 5 - Pricing, Catalog and Offers
Core
Architect and operate Tier-0 distributed systems for Netflix's global pricing, catalog, and offers platform, serving 330M+ members across 190+ countries.
Role type
Senior IC distributed systems engineer (pricing & commerce platform)
Builds
High-fanout commercial services handling 5M+ requests/second, including promotional targeting, subscription transactions, and new commerce experiences (Ads, Games, Live Streaming).
Domain
Streaming media, global commerce, distributed systems
Required skills
distributed systems design, race condition handling, eventual consistency, distributed transactions, high-scale low-latency architecture, platform mindset, operational excellence, complex project leadership, cross-functional communication
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), production on-call incident response
Technologies
Java, Kotlin, C#, Scala, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Hive, AWS, Presto, Spark SQL, Apache Flink, gRPC, GraphQL, REST, Cassandra, Amazon Aurora, Memcached
Responsibilities
Architect and operate Tier-0 services for global pricing and catalog; solve distributed systems challenges (consistency, throughput); evolve infrastructure for new commerce surfaces; own production reliability for high-traffic services; partner with product/data teams on growth initiatives
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
