Distributed Systems Engineer 6 - Membership & Monetization Platform

Netflix; Los Gatos (CA); On-site; USD 499,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

Mental health support

401(k) with employer match

Stock option program

Disability programs

Health savings & flexible spending

Job summary

Netflix is seeking a senior platform leader to own the strategy and delivery for the Membership & Monetization Platform.

You will shape long-term technical roadmaps, collaborate with product managers, design, and data scientists, and scale Tier 0 services with on-call responsibility.

This role emphasizes coaching engineers, driving cross-functional impact, and delivering scalable solutions that support ads, premium features, and global commerce.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of production-grade distributed systems experience.
• Ability to shape long-term technical strategy and roadmaps.
• Proven track record coaching engineers and elevating standards.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with product, design and data science.
• Excellent communication of complex trade-offs to non-engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional roadmaps and shape longer-term technical strategy.
• Drive scale of Tier 0 services and production reliability end-to-end.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and data scientists to build commerce experiences.
• Own requirements gathering and drive design, execution, and delivery.
• Coach and mentor other engineers to elevate standards.

Tools

Java

Kotlin

C#

Scala

ElasticSearch

Kafka

Hive

AWS

Presto

Spark SQL

Apache Flink

gRPC

GraphQL

REST API

Cassandra

Amazon Aurora

Memcached

Job description

At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. Together, we are writing the next episode - pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom and making the unimaginable a reality. We are a dream team obsessed with the uncomfortable excitement of discovering what happens when you merge creativity, intuition and cutting-edge technology. Come be a part of what’s next.

Who We Are

Every Netflix membership, from the moment someone signs up to every plan change, renewal, and cancellation flows through our platform. The Membership & Monetization Platform (MMP) team owns the commerce backbone of Netflix: the Tier 0 services that manage subscription state, pricing, and plan availability for ~330 million members across 190+ countries, handling millions of requests per second.

What You Will Work On

You will be in a leadership role. You will work beyond your own team, driving impact for the org as a whole by shaping longer-term technical strategy, driving cross-functional roadmaps, and scaling your own impact through others.You'll 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.You'll partner with product managers, designers, and data scientists to build commerce experiences that drive growth. Recent examples: our systems enabled the password-sharing crackdown, helped launch the Ads-supported plan, and enabled new features for premium members.On the platform side, you'll tackle distributed systems challenges: race conditions, consistency guarantees and throughput optimization. You’ll evolve our infrastructure to keep pace with Netflix's expanding commerce surface (Ads, Games, Live Streaming). You'll also be part of the on-call rotation for these Tier 0 services, owning production reliability end-to-end.

We're Eager to Talk to You If:

• You have 15+ years of experience building resilient, high-scale, low-latency distributed systems in production.
• You've dealt with hard correctness problems: race conditions, eventual consistency, distributed transactions.
• You have a platform mindset: You can take vague business directives and translate them into scalable and maintainable solutions.
• You thrive in cross-functional environments and communicate complex technical trade-offs clearly to non-engineering partners.
• You drive broader strategic impact, delivering beyond your immediate team to shape technical roadmaps and solve cross-functional problems.
• You scale your impact through coaching, mentoring, and developing other engineers, elevating technical standards across the organization.
• You take a leadership role on your projects: gathering requirements and driving design, execution and delivery.

Some 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.

Generally, 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 $499,000.00 - $900,000.00.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off.

Netflix is a unique culture and environment.

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.