Netflix Distributed Systems Engineer L5 - Compute Abstractions 

United States, Oregon 

503379069

• Work closely with Product and Customers to design experiences that anticipate customers' needs before they do and make doing internet scale computing easy.

• Design compute abstractions used by all of engineering, informing trade-offs between complexity and ease-of-use against Netflix-wide business priorities.

• Mentor peer engineers in building, maintaining, and deploying complex features that have an impact across all of Netflix.

• Drive operational excellence on the Abstractions team, continuously improving incident response, on-call, and other operational practices.

• Maintain currency on industry trends for new architectures, features, and off-the-shelf services; make recommendations on incorporating industry trends.

• Develop automated systems to test for regressions and performance.

• You have a proven track record of architecting and implementing customer-focused products that define and modify infrastructure at 100M+ user scale.

• You’ve driven wide change at the scale of 100’s of engineers to improve the interaction between engineers, infrastructure abstractions, and business outcomes such as cost or reliability.

• You’ve architected, implemented, and owned a distributed system at the scale of 10’s of services or more, and learned from at least one notable mistake.

• You’re a seasoned mentor who has helped other engineers learn new professional skills, overcome new challenges, and earn promotions to new roles.

• Your peers are sad when you leave a role because everything you build is so easy to use and maintain.

• Your stakeholders are sad when you leave because you so readily understood their needs that even when you had to say “no” they didn’t feel bad about it.

• You have a passion for building for ease of use for the customer.

• 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 self-manage cross-functional projects fueled by ambiguous questions.

• Are a self-starter, curious, and not afraid to ask when in doubt.

• Are a quick learner and excited about learning new technologies.

• Advocate thoughtful collaboration, take pride in your work, and enjoy taking full ownership of projects from conception to production.

• Experience defining compute resources at scale and understanding the challenges that configurability presents to users.

• Knowledge of building on top of Kubernetes.

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $100,000 - $720,000.

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