Distributed Systems Engineer (L6) Managed Compute
Offer summary
Qualifications:
Extensive experience in designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems., Proficiency in programming languages such as Golang, Java, and Python., Strong understanding of Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure abstractions., Excellent communication and leadership skills to mentor engineers and collaborate across teams..Key responsibilities:
- Lead the development of products and services that simplify internet-scale computing.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to design user-friendly cloud infrastructure solutions.
- Mentor engineering teams in implementing complex features and operational best practices.
- Act as a liaison to ensure cohesive and cost-effective infrastructure changes.
Job description
Netflix is one of the worlds 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 Us
Netflix’s Compute organization owns our internetscale cloud footprint. We constantly innovate to increase fleetwide 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 industryleading, scalable, rightsized, and optimized compute without the need to know anything about where or on what their workloads run.
About You
We are looking for a highly experienced, collaborative technical lead to drive our charter, guide engineering work for the team, and break new ground with handson innovation on the hardest technical challenges. You will lead the delivery of products and services that make it incredibly simple for thousands of engineers to do things like deliver millions of hours of encoded video globally. Ultimately, the products you build will reduce cognitive load and improve configuration safety through standardized guardrailbased defaults for all engineers across Netflix. You have a passion for user experience and enjoy bringing together engineers from different teams to build a unified cloud infrastructure offering for your customers.
In this role, you will: Work closely with Product Owners and Customers to design experiences that anticipate customers needs before they do and make internetscale computing easy.
Lead the design of products & services that abstract away underlying system complexities and are used by all of engineering, informing tradeoffs between complexity and easeofuse against Netflixwide business priorities.
Mentor all levels of engineers in owning the implementation and rollout of complex features that have an impact across Netflix.
Act as a liaison between Compute and other organizations to ensure cohesive changes to deliver cost efficiency and low latency.
Set the example for operational excellence on the team and across Compute, continuously improving incident response, oncall, and other operational practices.
Maintain currency on, if not create, industry trends for new architectures, features, and offtheshelf services; guide the team’s decisionmaking on incorporating industry trends.
Desired Skills & Experience:
A proven track record of architecting and implementing customerfocused products (largescale distributed systems) that define and modify infrastructure at a 100M+ user scale.
Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationshipbuilding skills.
Demonstrated ability to drive infrastructure changes at scale
Passion for technology, pragmatic thinking, ability to jump into an ambiguous area and break down complex problems.
Demonstrated technical leadership to empower the team around you and get the most from diverse stakeholders, including product managers, peer engineers across Netflix, and more.
Handson experience with Kubernetes and how to abstract away its complexities
Experience with Golang, Java, andor Python.
Ability to thrive in a fastpaced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities effectively.
You will be successful in this role if you:Shine when you have to balance complex customer, engineering, and other stakeholder needs, and are obsessed with optimizing for the customer whenever possible.
Have the ability to define and selfmanage crossfunctional projects fueled by ambiguous questions.
Are a selfstarter, curious, and not afraid to ask when in doubt.
Advocate thoughtful collaboration, take pride in your work, and enjoy taking full ownership of projects from conception to production.
Have read about Netflix’s culture and think you would thrive here.
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, Familyforming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Fulltime hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Fulltime 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 accommodationadjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.
Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.
Work closely with Product Owners and Customers to design experiences that anticipate customers needs before they do and make internetscale computing easy.
Lead the design of products & services that abstract away underlying system complexities and are used by all of engineering, informing tradeoffs between complexity and easeofuse against Netflixwide business priorities.
Mentor all levels of engineers in owning the implementation and rollout of complex features that have an impact across Netflix.
Act as a liaison between Compute and other organizations to ensure cohesive changes to deliver cost efficiency and low latency.
Set the example for operational excellence on the team and across Compute, continuously improving incident response, oncall, and other operational practices.
Maintain currency on, if not create, industry trends for new architectures, features, and offtheshelf services; guide the team’s decisionmaking on incorporating industry trends.
A proven track record of architecting and implementing customerfocused products (largescale distributed systems) that define and modify infrastructure at a 100M+ user scale.
Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationshipbuilding skills.
Demonstrated ability to drive infrastructure changes at scale
Passion for technology, pragmatic thinking, ability to jump into an ambiguous area and break down complex problems.
Demonstrated technical leadership to empower the team around you and get the most from diverse stakeholders, including product managers, peer engineers across Netflix, and more.
Handson experience with Kubernetes and how to abstract away its complexities
Experience with Golang, Java, andor Python.
Ability to thrive in a fastpaced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities effectively.
Desired Skills & Experience:
Shine when you have to balance complex customer, engineering, and other stakeholder needs, and are obsessed with optimizing for the customer whenever possible.
Have the ability to define and selfmanage crossfunctional projects fueled by ambiguous questions.
Are a selfstarter, curious, and not afraid to ask when in doubt.
Advocate thoughtful collaboration, take pride in your work, and enjoy taking full ownership of projects from conception to production.
Have read about Netflix’s culture and think you would thrive here.
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, Familyforming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Fulltime hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Fulltime 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 accommodationadjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.
Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.
Shine when you have to balance complex customer, engineering, and other stakeholder needs, and are obsessed with optimizing for the customer whenever possible.
Have the ability to define and selfmanage crossfunctional projects fueled by ambiguous questions.
Are a selfstarter, curious, and not afraid to ask when in doubt.
Advocate thoughtful collaboration, take pride in your work, and enjoy taking full ownership of projects from conception to production.
Have read about Netflix’s culture and think you would thrive here.
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, Familyforming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Fulltime hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Fulltime 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 accommodationadjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.
Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.
Required profile
Experience
Other Skills
- Relationship Building
- Complex Problem Solving
- Negotiation
- Curiosity
- Collaboration
- Communication
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