Distributed Systems Engineer 6 - Membership & Monetization Platform

Netflix
United States
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 499,000 - 900,000 annuallyFunction: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)Experience: 15+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Leadership","Cross-functional communication","Problem-solving","Mentoring","Strategic thinking"]

Lead Netflix’s Membership & Monetization Platform by driving distributed-systems strategy and execution across Tier 0 commerce services. Work with product managers, designers, and data scientists to deliver acquisition and retention features, while tackling race conditions, consistency, and throughput at massive scale. Own production reliability through on-call, evolve infrastructure for expanding commerce surfaces, and scale impact by mentoring and developing other engineers.

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Distributed Systems Engineer 6 - Membership & Monetization Platform

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Job Summary

Lead Netflix’s Membership & Monetization Platform by driving distributed-systems strategy and execution across Tier 0 commerce services. Work with product managers, designers, and data scientists to deliver acquisition and retention features, while tackling race conditions, consistency, and throughput at massive scale. Own production reliability through on-call, evolve infrastructure for expanding commerce surfaces, and scale impact by mentoring and developing other engineers.
Location: United States
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Drive long-term technical strategy and cross-functional roadmaps for the Membership & Monetization Platform org.
  • •Build and scale platform and product-facing features that support acquisition, retention, pricing, and plan availability.
  • •Tackle distributed-systems challenges including race conditions, consistency guarantees, and throughput optimization.
  • •Evolve Tier 0 commerce infrastructure to keep pace with Netflix’s expanding commerce surface (Ads, Games, Live Streaming).
  • •Own production reliability end-to-end as part of the on-call rotation for Tier 0 services.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 499,000 - 900,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health Insurance401kEquityDisability ProgramsFlexible SpendingPaid LeaveLife Insurance

Key Requirements

  • •15+ years building resilient, high-scale, low-latency distributed systems in production.
  • •Experience solving correctness problems such as race conditions, eventual consistency, and distributed transactions.
  • •Ability to translate vague business directives into scalable, maintainable technical solutions.
  • •Strong cross-functional communication and ability to clarify complex technical trade-offs to non-engineering partners.
  • •Experience coaching and mentoring engineers, with a leadership mindset for gathering requirements and driving design, execution, and delivery.
Experience:15+ years
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science or a related field
Skills:LeadershipCross-functional communicationProblem-solvingMentoringStrategic thinking
Tech Stack:JavaKotlinC#ScalaElasticSearchKafkaHiveAWSPrestoSpark SQLApache FlinkGRPCGraphQLRESTSQLNoSQLCassandraAmazon AuroraMemcached

Company Brief

Netflix
Global subscription streaming service that produces and distributes movies, TV series, and games across multiple devices, operating worldwide with extensive original content and localized offerings.
Industry: Streaming Platforms
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Los Gatos, United States
Founded: 1997
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