Distributed Systems Engineer (L4) - Compute Abstractions

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 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.

About the Team

Netflix’s Compute organization owns our internet-scale cloud footprint. We constantly innovate to increase fleet-wide agility, efficiency, and reliability of this infrastructure. We build, operate, and maintain Compute services so that Netflix developers can rely on foundational building blocks that enable a “set it and forget it” approach to achieving scalability and cost efficiency. Join us as we push the boundaries of performance and resilience, empowering developers to create groundbreaking applications on a reliable platform.

In Compute Abstractions, we believe getting up and running in the cloud quickly should be the easiest step to getting your service running in the cloud. To help our internal customers do this, we offer APIs and managed configurations on our compute platform, Titus, that abstract away compute resource complexity and scaling responsiveness. We see the future as one where our customers can rely on industry-leading, scalable, right-sized, and optimized compute without the need to know anything about where or on what their workloads run. 

• Build and operate services, APIs, and tooling for a variety of use-cases.

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

• Engage directly with end-engineering-users to understand their needs and improve their experience.

• Understand and solve business needs at scale with high-quality solutions.

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

• Strong CS fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.

• Fluency with Java or Go (preferably) or similar OOP languages.

• Demonstrated experience building & operating microservices in a highly reliable distributed systems environment.

• Familiarity with cloud computing platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP, or similar.

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

• (desired experience) with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

• (desired experience) with cloud-native architecture.

• 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 head-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.

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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 - $720,000K

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 details about our Benefits here.

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity 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.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.