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# backend, distributed systems-focused engineer

- **Company:** Netflix, Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Continuous Delivery, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Spinnaker, Spring-boot, Backend
- **Published:** July 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/f05fce26-3c99-45a0-809d-c5c2f950b1b6

## About the Role

* Cross-Functional - You enjoy collaborating with multiple teams on creating solutions and supporting solutions with a myriad of sometimes conflicting requirements.
 * Seeking Excellence - You enjoy the pursuit of engineering excellence by evangelizing, establishing and iterating on best practices.
 * Curiosity - You are curious and enjoy working on ambiguous problems where the solutions are not (yet) well defined.
 * Communication - You are proficient in verbal and written mediums at explaining topics that the audience was not familiar with previously., * Experienced with Java or other JVM languages
 * Have built distributed systems components. You know how to debug them and how they can fail.
 * Able to break down complexity, iterate, and communicate progress to a wide variety of partners and stakeholders.
 * Comfortable participating in an on-call rotation.

Nice to Have:

 * Ability to develop full stack and write front-end code when needed
 * Familiarity with the Spring Boot framework
 * Have worked on a developer platform team where other engineers were your customers.

## Description

Our team is primarily responsible for the developer platforms that roll out software and infrastructure changes to the entire Netflix fleet. We do this through our Continuous Delivery (CD) system Spinnaker, and our higher level declarative delivery-based platform, Managed Delivery. We are more closely unifying these products into one cohesive unified Delivery experience. Some example goals for projects include:

 * Reduce friction and time to deploy software across our internal fleet
 * Improve the reliability and safety of changes being rolled out

| What We'll Expect From You

We are seeking a backend, distributed systems-focused engineer who is comfortable writing, improving, maintaining, and sunsetting critical services at our scale. Below are the specific behaviors and competencies important for this role.


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