Distributed Systems Engineer 5 - Pricing, Catalog and Offers
About The Position
Every Netflix membership, from the moment someone signs up to every plan change, renewal, and cancellation flows through our platform. As a foundational part of the Membership & Monetization Platform (MMP), the Pricing, Catalog and Offers (PCO) team architects and operates the Tier-0 services that serve as Netflix's commercial source of truth. We manage the global product and pricing catalog, run the promotional targeting infrastructure and operate the backend supporting member subscription transactions for ~330 million members across 190+ countries, with our high-fanout services handling over 5 million requests per second. We’re a team of engineers who care deeply about both product innovation and engineering excellence. We build platforms that enable teams to move quickly on new commerce experiences while maintaining the technical rigor required for systems where correctness at scale is paramount and failures can directly affect global revenue.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building resilient, high-scale, low-latency distributed systems in production.
- Possess a platform mindset that allows you to easily translate vague business directives into clear, scalable, and maintainable technical solutions.
- Dedicated to operational excellence and have dealt with hard correctness problems: race conditions, eventual consistency, and distributed transactions.
- Exhibit extreme ownership of your domain and have successfully led complex engineering projects from inception to delivery, proactively improving critical systems along the way.
- Excel in cross-functional environments and communicate complex technical trade-offs clearly to non-engineering partners.
Nice To Haves
- Working experience with Java || Kotlin || C# || Scala, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Hive or AWS.
- Experience with Presto and/or Spark SQL, Apache Flink
- Proficient with gRPC, GraphQL, or RESTful API design and implementation.
- Experience with SQL & NoSQL multi-region data stores such as Cassandra, Amazon Aurora, Memcached.
- Comfortable with production on-call responsibilities and incident response for Tier 0 services.
- Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science or a related field.
Responsibilities
- Work across the full spectrum, from product-facing features that directly impact acquisition and retention, to the platform infrastructure that makes them possible at Netflix scale.
- Partner with product managers, designers, and data scientists to build commerce experiences that drive growth.
- Tackle distributed systems challenges: race conditions, consistency guarantees and throughput optimization.
- Evolve our infrastructure to keep pace with Netflix's expanding commerce surface (Ads, Games, Live Streaming).
- Be part of the on-call rotation for these Tier 0 services, owning production reliability end-to-end.
Benefits
- Health Plans
- Mental Health support
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match
- Stock Option Program
- Disability Programs
- Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Family-forming benefits
- Life and Serious Injury Benefits
- Paid leave of absence programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
