Distributed Systems Engineer (L4) – Cloud Engineering
Job Description
Netflix is one of the world’s leading streaming entertainment services with over 247 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 some of the subteams outlined below.
Team Spotlights
Networking
The Platform Networking team at Netflix focuses on building, scaling and operating Netflix’s cloud network infrastructure. Our goal is to enhance the network’s reliability, availability, scalability, security, and observability while abstracting away complexity, so application owners can concentrate on addressing business challenges. Our scope includes components such as Edge Proxies/Gateways, Service Mesh Service Discovery, Cloud DNS, Network Observability, Network-as-a-Service, VPC eBPF infra, and Load Balancing. By joining the Network Platform team, you’ll be part of an engineering group that plays a vital role in improving Netflix’s Network infra, directly impacting the company’s key business priorities and overall performance.
Compute
The Compute team’s mission is to deliver a cloud compute platform at internet scale. Our platform provides the foundation atop which over 3,000 application developers and platform engineers at Netflix deliver their work to our 247+ million members. Our products power diverse workloads from “hot path” services delivering 10k-100k requests per second at ~millisecond latency to huge scale batch workloads that perform encoding, data processing, and machine learning operations at petabyte scale. Our problem domains include capacity management, traffic and failover, container execution across EC2 and our multi-tenant container platform, and on-host runtime execution and performance.
Storage
Storage team focuses on providing storage and insights services to platforms, applications and users around the globe which are performant, secure and centrally managed; enabling platforms to move, store and efficiently archive data in the cloud. We offer a consistent mechanism to create manage object/block/file resources, integrate Netflix ecosystem for access control and provide observability into the cost lifecycle of these resources, by taking ownership of existing tools and shaping a more cohesive strategy. We manage storage at exabyte scale and enable Netflix to serve a huge amount of content around the globe.
Must-have skills
- 2-5 years of professional Software Engineering experience
- 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:
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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At Netflix, we carefully consider a wide range of compensation factors to determine your personal top of market. We rely on market indicators to determine compensation and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to get it right. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary and will also be dependent on your location.
The overall market range for roles in this area of Netflix is typically $100,000 – $700,000.
This market range is based on total compensation (vs. only base salary), which is in line with our compensation philosophy. 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.
The Platform Networking team at Netflix focuses on building, scaling and operating Netflix’s cloud network infrastructure. Our goal is to enhance the network’s reliability, availability, scalability, security, and observability while abstracting away complexity, so application owners can concentrate on addressing business challenges. Our scope includes components such as Edge Proxies/Gateways, Service Mesh Service Discovery, Cloud DNS, Network Observability, Network-as-a-Service, VPC eBPF infra, and Load Balancing. By joining the Network Platform team, you’ll be part of an engineering group that plays a vital role in improving Netflix’s Network infra, directly impacting the company’s key business priorities and overall performance.
Compute
The Compute team’s mission is to deliver a cloud compute platform at internet scale. Our platform provides the foundation atop which over 3,000 application developers and platform engineers at Netflix deliver their work to our 247+ million members. Our products power diverse workloads from “hot path” services delivering 10k-100k requests per second at ~millisecond latency to huge scale batch workloads that perform encoding, data processing, and machine learning operations at petabyte scale. Our problem domains include capacity management, traffic and failover, container execution across EC2 and our multi-tenant container platform, and on-host runtime execution and performance.
Storage
Storage team focuses on providing storage and insights services to platforms, applications and users around the globe which are performant, secure and centrally managed; enabling platforms to move, store and efficiently archive data in the cloud. We offer a consistent mechanism to create manage object/block/file resources, integrate Netflix ecosystem for access control and provide observability into the cost lifecycle of these resources, by taking ownership of existing tools and shaping a more cohesive strategy. We manage storage at exabyte scale and enable Netflix to serve a huge amount of content around the globe.
Must-have skills
- 2-5 years of professional Software Engineering experience
- 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:
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!
************************
At Netflix, we carefully consider a wide range of compensation factors to determine your personal top of market. We rely on market indicators to determine compensation and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to get it right. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary and will also be dependent on your location.
The overall market range for roles in this area of Netflix is typically $100,000 – $700,000.
This market range is based on total compensation (vs. only base salary), which is in line with our compensation philosophy. 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.
Originally posted on Himalayas