Distributed Systems Engineer (L5), Commerce Insights and Data Products Engineering

Netflix

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Netflix is the world''s leading streaming entertainment service, offering a vast library of TV series, films, documentaries, and original content to subscribers in over 190 countries. Industry: Streaming Entertainment & Media

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TL;DR · Distributed Systems Engineer (L5), Commerce Insights and Data Products Engineering

The Distributed Systems Engineer (L5) - Commerce Insights and Data Products Engineering joins the Commerce Insights and Data Products Engineering team to build data products critical for optimizing product experiences. In this role, you will partner with data scientists and engineers to develop highly available, reliable, and low-latency distributed data systems and services. You will build products that power algorithms and machine learning models across commerce and identity flows, ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality data. Required skills include proficiency in JVM stack languages like Java or Scala, SQL, and experience with Spark, Flink, and various storage solutions. You must understand how ML systems consume features and labels to design scalable, multi-tenant systems with strong operational awareness, observability, and monitoring for high-throughput demands.

What you'll do

  • Build low-latency data products to power algorithms and machine learning models for commerce and identity flows.
  • Develop highly available and reliable distributed data systems and services to ensure timely delivery of high-quality data.
  • Design and implement large-scale distributed systems using data processing frameworks like Spark or Flink.
  • Create data products that provide features, inference inputs, labels, and reward signals for ML systems.
  • Design multi-tenant systems capable of handling high-scale, high-throughput demands while remaining easy to monitor and maintain.
  • Implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure system observability and proactive issue detection.
  • Make data available for self-service and wider integration across the organization.
  • Write elegant, maintainable code using JVM languages like Java or Scala and SQL.

What we're looking for

  • Proficiency in at least one major JVM stack language (e.g., Java, Scala) and SQL is required.
  • Experience building applications using large-scale distributed systems and data processing frameworks like Spark or Flink is required.
  • Experience with storage solutions and building high-quality data products is required.
  • Knowledge of how ML systems consume data, including features, inference inputs, labels, and reward signals, is required.
  • Ability to design multi-tenant systems that handle high-scale, high-throughput demands with strong operational awareness is required.
  • Ability to prioritize observability through comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting in system designs is required.
  • Ability to work in agile environments with vague requirements and provide/receive candid feedback is required.

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