The Senior Distributed Systems Engineer role at Netflix focuses on designing, building, and operating the next generation of experimentation and feature flag infrastructure. The Experience Foundation team is responsible for core systems that power A/B test allocation and feature rollouts across the platform. This position emphasizes high availability, low latency, and resilience in services that impact product experiences on every device. The engineer will work closely with various teams to ensure experimentation data is accurate and timely.

• You have built and operated scalable, reliable backend services.
• You write high-quality code in Java or another JVM language.
• You have experience with monitoring, on-call, debugging, and systematic performance improvements.
• You work effectively with other senior engineers and cross-functional partners.

• Build and evolve critical experimentation and feature flag services.
• Design and implement high-scale, low-latency services for experiment allocation and feature flag evaluation.
• Own reliability and performance of the services.
• Participate in on-call duties and lead incident response.
• Instrument services with observability metrics, logs, and traces.
• Collaborate with teams using technologies like Flink, Spark, Elasticsearch, and Druid.
• Define clear data and API contracts for consumers and pipelines.
• Simplify and improve the developer experience for configuring and monitoring experiments.

• 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.