Distributed Systems Engineer (L4/5) - Storage

Netflix is one of the world’s leading entertainment services with 278 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.

The Role

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.

The 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:

• 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.

• Domain experienced is preferred.

What you’ll be doing in this role:

• 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.

You will be successful in the role if:

• 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.

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.

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