Systems Development Engineer 5 - Creative Compute and Storage

The Creative Compute and Storage team designs, develops, and delivers technology infrastructure globally for the evolving needs of our creatives. As we continue to expand our content creation globally, we are looking for the best and brightest engineering talent to be part of our growth. 

Our team is looking for a Senior Systems Development Engineer with deep storage expertise to be part of the development and build-out of our purposefully developed infrastructure platforms. You will own the design, automation, and reliability of the large-scale, high-performance storage systems that sit at the heart of content creation, working with internal engineering teams, technical creatives, production teams, and external vendors around the world to deliver amazing technology experiences for our creative users. We are looking for an experienced engineer who brings a broad set of technical skills and achievements, a development and automation-focused mindset to solving problems, and unique career and life experiences to join our teams as we continue to evolve entertainment around the world.

Be sure to review our culture page and long-term view to learn more about the unique Netflix culture and the opportunity to be part of our team.

As a member of the team, you will...

• Work with a broad group of engineering teams, internal and external partners, and creative teams to design, develop, implement, and support a broad collection of technology solutions for content creation at Netflix.

• Own the architecture, deployment, and lifecycle of our high-performance storage platforms, including Dell PowerScale (OneFS) and NetApp (ONTAP), spanning file, block, and object workloads across globally distributed sites.

• Automate the full provisioning and configuration lifecycle of storage infrastructure using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices, treating storage as code with versioned, repeatable, and auditable deployments.

• Build and own observability for the storage fleet, including metrics, logging, tracing, capacity and performance dashboards, and proactive alerting that surface issues before they impact creative users.

• Design and build services to improve experiences and productivity for a broad range of content creative populations (e.g. post-production, animation, visual effects, etc.).

• Work in a uniquely challenging global infrastructure space with challenges far larger than almost any other studio in the world.

• Be empowered to build and develop new solutions to long-standing entertainment industry challenges.

• Entrusted for developing, scripting, and automating solutions to improve the efficiency and functionality of our production systems. This includes deploying these solutions and ensuring their successful integration within the existing system architecture.

• Participate in storage system upgrades, data migrations, and troubleshooting tasks to maintain optimal system performance. The candidate should be able to identify potential issues, develop effective solutions, and implement them to ensure system reliability and stability.

About you

• You have a minimum of 5 years of experience in building and developing compute, storage, and connectivity tooling to deliver product experiences for end-users.

• You have deep, hands-on expertise operating and automating enterprise storage platforms at scale, with strong production experience in Dell PowerScale / OneFS and/or NetApp / ONTAP (SMB/NFS, snapshots, replication, tiering, quotas, and performance tuning).

• You manage infrastructure as code, with strong Terraform skills (modules, state, providers) and a track record of automating storage and adjacent infrastructure provisioning.

• You are able to dissect large complex systems into sub-components, understanding each component’s additive value to the overall solution and able to optimize them both individually and collectively.

• You have a passion for automation, efficiency and scale; consistently driving operational excellence.

• You have a deep technical understanding of large-scale computing infrastructure; operating systems; high-performance file, block, and object storage technologies (PowerScale OneFS, NetApp ONTAP, and similar); scaled networking challenges; or any of the above.

• You enjoy and can effectively work collaboratively with business and product teams to develop product plans and roadmaps and then are able to own parts of the hands-on implementation of those plans.

• You thrive in identifying high-leverage, high-value work and direct your attention to those opportunities without explicit direction

• You aim to always be learning new things, working in new spaces, and share this passion with those around you

• You use data-driven strategies, applying thorough analytics and real-time insights for strategic and operational decisions.

• You strongly uphold observability principles, promoting transparent, measurable outcomes to improve performance and accountability, and you instrument storage systems for deep visibility into capacity, performance, and health.