Senior distributed-systems engineer on Netflix's Content & Business Products org — dailies pipelines, source acquisition, or AI-first localization

Netflix's Content & Business Products (CBP) Engineering org is hiring an L5 engineer to build products supporting content planning, financing, production, and distribution — spanning teams like Creative Workflows (generative-AI dailies pipelines), Source Acquisition Platform (ingest/evaluation of video, audio, subtitles, dubs), and Localization Technology (automating the platform that fulfills content for 2,700+ internal users and 180+ vendors). The role requires 5+ years building resilient, high-scale, low-latency distributed microservices, proficiency with gRPC/GraphQL/REST, and setting technical direction across teams.

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What this interview tests

High-scale, low-latency distributed microservices
gRPC/GraphQL/REST API design
Media/content pipeline system design (ingest, evaluation, automation)
Setting technical direction and cross-team architectural influence
On-call ownership and incident review leadership
AI-assisted engineering workflow

Common question themes

Design a pipeline that processes raw footage into accurate deliverables within hours

Design a service that ingests and evaluates media assets from external partners at scale

How would you automate a high-volume manual operational workflow like localization fulfillment

Describe a time you set technical direction and influenced other teams' architecture decisions

Walk me through an incident you led the review for

How has AI-assisted coding changed the way you work day to day

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