Distributed Systems Engineer 5 - Pricing, Catalog and Offers
Core
Architect and operate Tier-0 distributed systems for Netflix's global pricing, catalog, and offers platform, serving 330M+ members across 190+ countries.
Role type
Senior IC distributed systems engineer (pricing & commerce platform)
Builds
High-fanout commercial services handling 5M+ requests/second, including promotional targeting, subscription transactions, and new commerce experiences (Ads, Games, Live Streaming).
Domain
Streaming media, global commerce, distributed systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
distributed systems design, race condition handling, eventual consistency, distributed transactions, high-scale low-latency architecture, platform mindset, operational excellence, complex project leadership, cross-functional communication
Preferred skills
Java/Kotlin/C#/Scala, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Hive, AWS, Presto, Spark SQL, Apache Flink, gRPC, GraphQL, RESTful API design, SQL/NoSQL multi-region data stores (Cassandra, Amazon Aurora, Memcached), production on-call incident response
Technologies
Java, Kotlin, C#, Scala, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Hive, AWS, Presto, Spark SQL, Apache Flink, gRPC, GraphQL, REST, Cassandra, Amazon Aurora, Memcached
Responsibilities
Architect and operate Tier-0 services for global pricing and catalog; solve distributed systems challenges (consistency, throughput); evolve infrastructure for new commerce surfaces; own production reliability for high-traffic services; partner with product/data teams on growth initiatives
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
