Distributed Systems Engineer 6 – Ad Serving Platform

🕒 June 30

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Netflix

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1997

📱 Media

👥 B2C

Media • B2C

Netflix is a global streaming entertainment company and content producer whose stated mission is "to entertain the world. " It operates a consumer-facing subscription platform offering on-demand TV shows, films, and original programming, and also runs a public careers site emphasizing culture, inclusion, and hiring accommodations. The provided text highlights Netflix’s focus on recruiting talent worldwide, its work-life and culture pages, and its public-facing employer materials.

📋 Description

• Help drive the overall technical direction of the ad-serving platform • Partner across engineering teams to ensure the ecosystem meets SLAs, SLOs, and uptime requirements • Architect a concurrent platform optimized for high-throughput systems while monitoring, diagnosing, and mitigating tail latencies across core execution paths • Work with I/O-bound and CPU-bound workloads, profile and tune network and system layers • Build automated performance-benchmarking frameworks within the CI/CD pipeline to identify latency regressions • Build a modular architecture that enables other teams to build on top of the platform • Create entry points for external components like model-serving runtimes and budgeting systems • Architect a straightforward to operate and maintain system, ensuring resiliency during traffic spikes or live events

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience building distributed systems, core backend infrastructure, or high-throughput platforms • Deep expertise writing clean, highly optimized code in systems languages (e.g., Java, Go, C++, or Rust) • Practical experience with multi-threaded systems design, concurrent programming, and algorithmic design for highly concurrent workloads • Understanding of distributed system fundamentals, managing I/O-bound and CPU-bound workloads, network protocols, and data partitioning strategies • Experience using profiling and diagnostic tools to measure system performance, analyze tail latencies, identify execution hotspots, and build telemetry or monitoring hooks • Ability to translate complex algorithmic requirements into extensible platform components that support multiple teams • Comfort using modern development tools and LLM assistance to accelerate implementation while maintaining architectural oversight and code quality

🏖️ 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 • Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off • Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off