Senior Distributed Systems Architect – Scale & Reliability

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

Job summary

Netflix seeks a senior engineering leader to shape the technical roadmap for our high-scale, low-latency commerce platform. You will work across product, design, data science and engineering to drive cross-functional initiatives and robust, scalable systems.

You will mentor engineers, cultivate architectural standards, and own production reliability in a multi-region environment, including on-call responsibilities. A CS degree and 15+ years of distributed systems experience are expected.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience building resilient, high-scale distributed systems.
• Ability to translate vague business directives into scalable, maintainable solutions.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and driving technical roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Drive long-term technical strategy for the org and cross-functional roadmaps.
• Lead platform initiatives across product, design, data science and engineering teams.
• Own on-call reliability and performance of Tier 0 services.

Skills

Distributed systems

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring others

System scalability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Java/Kotlin/C#/Scala

ElasticSearch

Kafka

Hive

AWS

Presto / Spark SQL / Flink

gRPC/GraphQL/REST

Cassandra

Amazon Aurora

Memcached

Job description

Netflix seeks a senior engineering leader to shape the technical roadmap for our high-scale, low-latency commerce platform. You will work across product, design, data science and engineering to drive cross-functional initiatives and robust, scalable systems.

You will mentor engineers, cultivate architectural standards, and own production reliability in a multi-region environment, including on-call responsibilities. A CS degree and 15+ years of distributed systems experience are expected.