Netflix is seeking Distributed Systems Software Engineers for the Open Connect Control Plane team to build scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient systems for streaming video, live content, and cloud gaming. The role involves crafting high-scale services, ensuring operational excellence, and analyzing data to enhance user experience globally.

• 5+ years of software development with strong experience in Java.
• Experience building and operating business-critical, real-time systems at scale.
• Distributed Systems experience (e.g., building stateful & stateless systems, experience with Cassandra, Kafka, etc.).
• Experience querying, analyzing, and presenting data from large-scale data lakes (e.g., experience with Python, SQL, Notebooks, SparkSQL).

• Build high-scale and resilient services for streaming and live content.
• Develop tools for operational excellence to maintain complex systems in real-time.
• Create large-scale distributed software systems and data pipelines for data organization and analysis.

• Employees at Netflix are often offered flexible, people-first benefits—unlimited time away, generous parental leave, global family-forming support, mental-health programs (mindfulness, free counseling/coaching), and health coverage tailored by country. Financially, Netflix pays at personal top-of-market and lets employees choose their mix of cash vs. fully-vested 10-year stock options, alongside donation and volunteer matching. Convenience perks can include trust-based travel/expense policies, relocation support, and “Work, Not Drive” rideshare flexibility.