Distributed Systems Engineer (L5) - Service Mesh & Cloud Gateway

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 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.

About the Team

The Application Networking Group owns the communication backbone for Netflix's Cloud, including the Edge Gateway and services responsible for handling all internet-facing traffic entering the cloud, device-to-server protocol, and server-driven configuration push to devices. Our Service Mesh and Service Discovery products enable service communications within the cloud. With our product offerings, we aim to uplift Netflix's resilience, observability, and security posture while continuing to iterate on the product experience for the diverse stakeholders we interface with.

We are in an exciting phase where our platform continues to evolve to support new business initiatives and emerging use cases at Netflix. We are looking for multiple engineers to join our diverse teams of talented engineers.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Building and operating highly reliable distributed systems in a cloud environment.

• Understanding of Service Mesh technologies such as Envoy-based service mesh, Istio, LinkerD.

• Leveraging Envoy proxy for AI use cases or building secure proxies.

• Experience with performance optimization for Service Mesh.

• Deep understanding of gRPC.

• Understanding of security concerns like DDoS, TLS, authentication and authorization, identity propagation, etc.

• Pragmatic thinking and the ability to jump into an ambiguous area and break down complex problems with little guidance.

What you’ll be doing in this role:

• Building and operating functionality within our data plane and control plane to uplift the security, observability, and resilience story for traffic traversing the cloud.

• Improving developer experience and product experience in collaboration with team members and customers.

Here are a few recent talks and posts from members of the team to highlight the work we do:

• Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding

• How Netflix uses eBPF Flow logs

• NATless IPv6/IPv4 Address Translation

• Consistent caching mechanisms in Titus Gateway

• Netflix Drive

• Zero Configuration Service Mesh with On-Demand Cluster Discovery

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Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top-of-market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $100,000 - $720,000K

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more details about our Benefitshere.

Netflix has a unique culture and environment. Learn morehere.

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversitybuilds 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 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.