Distributed Systems Engineer 5 - Membership & Monetization Platform

Netflix
Panama
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 388,000 - 619,000 annuallyFunction: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)Experience: 9+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Correctness at scale","End-to-end ownership","Cross-functional communication","Platform mindset","Reliability mindset"]

Build and evolve Netflix’s Membership & Monetization Platform (Tier 0) that powers subscription state, pricing, and plan availability for hundreds of millions of members worldwide. Partner with product, design, and data science to deliver commerce experiences, tackle distributed-systems challenges like race conditions, consistency, and throughput optimization, and own production reliability end-to-end through an on-call rotation.

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Distributed Systems Engineer 5 - Membership & Monetization Platform

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Job Summary

Build and evolve Netflix’s Membership & Monetization Platform (Tier 0) that powers subscription state, pricing, and plan availability for hundreds of millions of members worldwide. Partner with product, design, and data science to deliver commerce experiences, tackle distributed-systems challenges like race conditions, consistency, and throughput optimization, and own production reliability end-to-end through an on-call rotation.
Location: Panama
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Work across product-facing and platform infrastructure to impact acquisition, retention, and member experiences.
  • •Deliver distributed systems solutions addressing race conditions, consistency guarantees, and throughput optimization.
  • •Evolve Tier 0 infrastructure to keep pace with expanding Netflix commerce surfaces (Ads, Games, Live Streaming).
  • •Collaborate with product managers, designers, and data scientists to build commerce experiences that drive growth.
  • •Participate in on-call rotation and own production reliability and incident response end-to-end.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 388,000 - 619,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health Insurance401kEquityPaid LeaveDisability Programs

Key Requirements

  • •9+ years building resilient, high-scale, low-latency distributed systems in production.
  • •Experience with correctness challenges such as race conditions, eventual consistency, and distributed transactions.
  • •Translate ambiguous business directives into scalable, maintainable engineering solutions.
  • •Cross-functional communication: clearly explain complex technical trade-offs to non-engineering partners.
  • •Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science or a related field.
Experience:9+ yearsDistributed systemsHigh-scale platformsLow-latency systems
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science or a related field
Skills:Correctness at scaleEnd-to-end ownershipCross-functional communicationPlatform mindsetReliability mindset
Tech Stack:JavaKotlinC#ScalaElasticSearchKafkaHiveAWSPrestoSpark SQLApache FlinkGRPCGraphQLRESTful APISQLNoSQLCassandraAmazon 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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