Data Engineer (L5) - Growth Insights and Foundations

Netflix is one of the world’s leading entertainment services with 278 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

The Role

• You are proficient in at least one major language preferably on the JVM stack (e.g., Java, Scala) and SQL (any variant). You strive to write elegant and maintainable code, and you're comfortable with picking up new technologies.
• You have a product mindset and are curious to understand the business's needs. You have a naturally collaborative style to work with product management, data science, engineering, etc in service of these needs.
• You possess a strong data intuition and know how to apply your analytical skills and data engineering fundamentals to support building high quality data products.
• You have experience building applications that use large-scale distributed systems, data processing frameworks (batch and real-time) e.g. Spark, Flink, etc., and storage solutions.
• You are passionate about making data available for self-service, and wider integration. You have knowledge about transport protocols and are well-versed with building APIs/services and frameworks used for them e.g. Spring, gRPC etc.
• You have experience in supporting and maintaining products that run 24x7, ensuring high availability and reliability.
• You can craft scalable systems and solutions to realize a range of product and engineering goals.
• You have a strong operational awareness and design multi-tenant systems that can handle high-scale and high-throughput demands while being easy to operate, monitor, scale, and maintain.
• You prioritize observability in your designs, ensuring systems are equipped with comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting to facilitate proactive issue detection and resolution.
• You own what you build, beyond just your code and have a passion for quality.
• You are comfortable working in the most agile of environments with vague requirements. You are nimble and can pivot easily when needed. You are unafraid to take smart risks.
• You relate to and embody many aspects of Netflix's Culture. You love working independently while also collaborating and giving/receiving candid feedback.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background 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.

Job is open for no less than 20 days and will be removed when the position is filled.