Key skills
Distributed microservicesHigh-scale infrastructureLow-latency systemsJavaKotlinC#ScalaElasticSearchKafkaHiveAWSPrestoSpark SQLApache FlinkgRPCGraphQLRESTful APISQLNoSQLCassandraAmazon AuroraMemcachedHigh-quality solutionsTechnical decision makingOn-call supportBachelor's degreeCollaborationEffective communicationCSparkElasticsearchRESTful
About this role
Netflix is a company dedicated to entertaining the world, and they are seeking a Distributed Systems Engineer to work on critical Tier-0 systems that manage the subscription state of all Netflix customers. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize customer acquisition and retention while improving the infrastructure and platform to support business needs.
Responsibilities:
- Craft resilient, high-scale, low-latency, distributed microservices in production environments
- Engage in deep, meaningful cross-functional work with engineers, designers, product managers, and data scientists
- Optimize customer acquisition and retention, maximizing revenue and creating commerce opportunities
- Improve infrastructure and platform to meet growing business needs
- Uphold a high standard for data accuracy and operations
- Tackle problems of race condition, accuracy, and throughput optimization
- Maintain operations of highly scalable infrastructure by applying engineering best practices and providing first-class on-call support
Requirements:
- 9+ years of experience crafting resilient, high-scale, low-latency, distributed microservices in production environments
- Driven by the desire to solve hard infrastructure problems with the goal of automating and scaling everything
- Genuinely enjoy collaborating and sharing ideas with the team
- Can communicate effectively in written and verbal form
- Motivated to deliver high-quality solutions quickly
- Excellent at making technical decisions based on aggregated business goals
- Working experience with {Java || Kotlin || C# || Scala}, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Hive or AWS
- Experience with Presto and/or Spark SQL, Apache Flink
- Proficient with gRPC, GraphQL, or RESTful API design and implementation
- Experience with SQL & NoSQL multi-region data stores such as Cassandra, Amazon Aurora, Memcached
- Solid understanding of what being on-call means and can resolve production outages independently
- Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science or a related field