# Distributed Systems Engineer 5 - Content & Business Products at Netflix

- Company: Netflix
- What the company does: Watch Netflix movies & TV shows online or stream right to your smart TV, game console, PC, Mac, mobile, tablet and more. Backed by IVP and Redpoint.
- Company website: https://www.netflix.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: 2 Locations
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-09
- Apply by: 2026-10-24
- Apply: https://netflix.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Netflix/job/USA---Remote/Distributed-Systems-Engineer--L5---Content-Engineering_JR28751-1
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/netflix-distributed-systems-engineer-5-content-and-business-products/

## About the role

Being self-motivated, working independently, and partnering with a diverse group of engineers, product managers and TPMs across different functional areas and organizations. Empowering other engineers by building and operating robust, scalable, and highly available infrastructures, with a focus on developer experience, observability and operational excellence.

## What they're looking for

- Have 5+ years of experience in crafting complex distributed systems
- Have recent proficient experience with Java, C# or other OO programming languages with a solid understanding of OO design principles, concurrency, multi-threading, performance tuning and observability
- Have a proven track record in architecting, building, and operating distributed systems with high availability, fault tolerance, and performance
- Have solid experience in setting technical directions for engineering projects, making architectural decisions, and influencing partner and cross-functional teams
- Have the ability to proactively describe complex technical concepts to a variety of stakeholders, driving conversations and decisions through written and/or verbal communication
- Participate in our on-call rotation and lead the incident reviews