Distributed Systems Engineer 4/5 Cloud Platform Infrastructure Engineering Tooling
What We Are Looking For
- 7 or more years of experience designing and building complex, scalable distributed data infrastructure
- Proficiency in at least one of: Java, Go, or C++, with a strong software engineering foundation that enables you to write clean, maintainable, high-performance code.
- Practical understanding of at least one infrastructure domain — compute, distributed storage, or cloud networking or performance.
- Experience owning and delivering high-impact systems end-to-end, with accountability in dynamic and sometimes ambiguous environments.
- Experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems
What Sets You Apart
- Motivation to work on infrastructure that other engineers depend on, with a focus on building systems that are reliable and resilient.
- Bringing a product mindset to internal tooling: you think about developer experience, adoption, and the real-world impact on the teams you serve.
- Comfort with ambiguity and experience helping to shape problem definitions as well as solutions
- Experience contributing to or engaging with open source infrastructure communities.
- You approach technical challenges from first principles — you don't reach for familiar patterns when a better solution exists.
Cloud Infrastructure Engineering (CIE) builds and operates the foundational platform that Netflix runs on — compute, storage, networking, and performance infrastructure, at global scale. We think of ourselves as platform engineers for infrastructure: building the systems, tools, and abstractions that let Netflix's engineering organization move fast without compromising reliability or efficiency.
We are building the Cloud Infrastructure Tooling team in Warsaw — a new team that will sit at the center of CIE, acting as a multiplier across compute, storage, networking, and performance teams. The charter is to build internal tooling, developer-facing UIs, and shared services that reduce duplication and let CIE's domain teams to increase velocity. The problems we'll solve are technically challenging: our customers will be some of the most demanding infrastructure engineers in the industry, and the systems they depend on run at Netflix scale.
If you want to understand the kind of engineering this team supports, explore:
- Auto Scaling Production Services on Titus
- Noisy Neighbor Detection with eBPF
- Region Evacuation Reimagined
- Evolving Region Evacuation
- Consistent caching mechanism in Titus Gateway
- Mount Mayhem at Netflix: Scaling Containers on Modern CPUs