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Distributed Systems Engineer roles qualify for E-3 visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field. Australian engineers can secure two-year E-3 status with no lottery and renew indefinitely, making this one of the most direct paths to a U.S. engineering career.
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Get Access To All JobsAt Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. Together, we are writing the next episode - pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom and making the unimaginable a reality. We are a dream team obsessed with the uncomfortable excitement of discovering what happens when you merge creativity, intuition and cutting-edge technology. Come be a part of what’s next.
Our Content & Business Products (CBP) Engineering teams build the products and services to optimize and automate the content creation process including content planning, financing, production, promotion, and distribution. We support Netflix's enterprise needs including Finance, Talent, Tech Support, and Customer Support to ensure smooth operations. Our products enable the entire workflow of content production, from pitch to play, and provide innovative new ways to develop and manage entertainment at scale. The team’s work is critical to supporting the creation of movies and TV series that will thrill the world!
We are looking for talented distributed systems engineers like you to help build the technologies that allow us to scale our efforts across the globe, and do so effectively and efficiently! You’ll have a direct impact on how the Netflix studio creates and promotes shows such as “Squid Game”, “Stranger Things” and “The Queen’s Gambit” on a global scale.
We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team to bring new perspectives as we solve the next set of challenges. In addition, we are open to remote candidates - we value what you can do, from anywhere in the U.S..
You will be successful in this role if you enjoy:
- Being self-motivated, working independently, and partnering with a diverse group of engineers, product managers and TPMs across different functional areas and organizations.
- Empowering other engineers by building and operating robust, scalable, and highly available infrastructures, with a focus on developer experience, observability and operational excellence.
- Thriving in ambiguity, diving deep to understand problems and customer pain points, and solving them using appropriate technologies.
- Being an evangelist for high quality code and engineering best practices.
- Assisting in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals, and helping build technical communities across the organization.
- Living the Netflix’s culture and thinking you would thrive here.
Qualifications
- Have 5+ years of experience in crafting complex distributed systems.
- Have recent proficient experience with Java, C# or other OO programming languages with a solid understanding of OO design principles, concurrency, multi-threading, performance tuning and observability.
- Have a proven track record in architecting, building, and operating distributed systems with high availability, fault tolerance, and performance.
- Have solid experience in setting technical directions for engineering projects, making architectural decisions, and influencing partner and cross-functional teams.
- Have the ability to proactively describe complex technical concepts to a variety of stakeholders, driving conversations and decisions through written and/or verbal communication.
- Participate in our on-call rotation and lead the incident reviews.
Nice to have:
- Have a product mindset toward infrastructure and platforms.
- Experience in developing long-term technical strategies aligning with business goals via appropriate technology investments.
- Proficient with gRPC and/or GraphQL API design and implementation.
- Working experience with Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Memcached, and/or AWS.
- Familiarity with library development and DI frameworks (preferably Spring Boot).
- You leverage AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate the software development lifecycle.
- You actively seek out and vet new AI-driven development tools to boost overall team productivity and operational efficiency.
Spotlight on CBP Engineering Teams:
Eventing & Communications Platform (ECP)
The Eventing & Communications Platform (ECP), part of the Connected Enterprise Foundations (CEF) group, provides highly leveraged, and fully managed eventing, notification and commenting platforms. Our platforms are serving a wide range of CBP and Ads Engineering teams and impacting hundreds of thousands of internal and external business users working on our content pipelines all over the world.
Enterprise Workflow Platform
The Enterprise Workflow Platform team, a part of the Content Infrastructure & Solutions group, provides Studio and Content Engineering specific, highly leveraged, and fully managed data, workflow, and messaging & communication platforms facilitating the goal of the Connected Studio.
A few more things about us:
As a team, we come from many different countries and our fields of education range from the humanities to engineering to computer science. Our team includes product managers, program managers, designers, full-stack developers, distributed systems engineers, and data scientists. Folks have the opportunity to wear different hats, should they choose to. We strongly believe this diversity has helped us build an inclusive and empathetic environment and look forward to adding your perspective to the mix!
Generally, 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 $388,000.00 - $619,000.00. This compensation range will vary based on location.
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 Benefits here.
Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.
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 diversity builds 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.
At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. Together, we are writing the next episode - pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom and making the unimaginable a reality. We are a dream team obsessed with the uncomfortable excitement of discovering what happens when you merge creativity, intuition and cutting-edge technology. Come be a part of what’s next.
Our Content & Business Products (CBP) Engineering teams build the products and services to optimize and automate the content creation process including content planning, financing, production, promotion, and distribution. We support Netflix's enterprise needs including Finance, Talent, Tech Support, and Customer Support to ensure smooth operations. Our products enable the entire workflow of content production, from pitch to play, and provide innovative new ways to develop and manage entertainment at scale. The team’s work is critical to supporting the creation of movies and TV series that will thrill the world!
We are looking for talented distributed systems engineers like you to help build the technologies that allow us to scale our efforts across the globe, and do so effectively and efficiently! You’ll have a direct impact on how the Netflix studio creates and promotes shows such as “Squid Game”, “Stranger Things” and “The Queen’s Gambit” on a global scale.
We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team to bring new perspectives as we solve the next set of challenges. In addition, we are open to remote candidates - we value what you can do, from anywhere in the U.S..
You will be successful in this role if you enjoy:
- Being self-motivated, working independently, and partnering with a diverse group of engineers, product managers and TPMs across different functional areas and organizations.
- Empowering other engineers by building and operating robust, scalable, and highly available infrastructures, with a focus on developer experience, observability and operational excellence.
- Thriving in ambiguity, diving deep to understand problems and customer pain points, and solving them using appropriate technologies.
- Being an evangelist for high quality code and engineering best practices.
- Assisting in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals, and helping build technical communities across the organization.
- Living the Netflix’s culture and thinking you would thrive here.
Qualifications
- Have 5+ years of experience in crafting complex distributed systems.
- Have recent proficient experience with Java, C# or other OO programming languages with a solid understanding of OO design principles, concurrency, multi-threading, performance tuning and observability.
- Have a proven track record in architecting, building, and operating distributed systems with high availability, fault tolerance, and performance.
- Have solid experience in setting technical directions for engineering projects, making architectural decisions, and influencing partner and cross-functional teams.
- Have the ability to proactively describe complex technical concepts to a variety of stakeholders, driving conversations and decisions through written and/or verbal communication.
- Participate in our on-call rotation and lead the incident reviews.
Nice to have:
- Have a product mindset toward infrastructure and platforms.
- Experience in developing long-term technical strategies aligning with business goals via appropriate technology investments.
- Proficient with gRPC and/or GraphQL API design and implementation.
- Working experience with Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Memcached, and/or AWS.
- Familiarity with library development and DI frameworks (preferably Spring Boot).
- You leverage AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate the software development lifecycle.
- You actively seek out and vet new AI-driven development tools to boost overall team productivity and operational efficiency.
Spotlight on CBP Engineering Teams:
Eventing & Communications Platform (ECP)
The Eventing & Communications Platform (ECP), part of the Connected Enterprise Foundations (CEF) group, provides highly leveraged, and fully managed eventing, notification and commenting platforms. Our platforms are serving a wide range of CBP and Ads Engineering teams and impacting hundreds of thousands of internal and external business users working on our content pipelines all over the world.
Enterprise Workflow Platform
The Enterprise Workflow Platform team, a part of the Content Infrastructure & Solutions group, provides Studio and Content Engineering specific, highly leveraged, and fully managed data, workflow, and messaging & communication platforms facilitating the goal of the Connected Studio.
A few more things about us:
As a team, we come from many different countries and our fields of education range from the humanities to engineering to computer science. Our team includes product managers, program managers, designers, full-stack developers, distributed systems engineers, and data scientists. Folks have the opportunity to wear different hats, should they choose to. We strongly believe this diversity has helped us build an inclusive and empathetic environment and look forward to adding your perspective to the mix!
Generally, 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 $388,000.00 - $619,000.00. This compensation range will vary based on location.
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 Benefits here.
Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.
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 diversity builds 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.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as a Distributed Systems Engineer
Frame your degree for U.S. specialty occupation
Australian three-year bachelor's degrees satisfy E-3 visa educational requirements, but your employer's LCA must specify a degree field directly tied to distributed systems work. Confirm your transcript shows coursework in systems architecture, networking, or computer science before your employer files.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Search the DOL's Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data for companies that have certified LCAs for software or systems engineer roles. A history of E-3 or H-1B visa filings signals the employer already has the HR infrastructure to sponsor you.
Distinguish E-3 from H-1B in every recruiter conversation
Most U.S. engineering recruiters conflate E-3 with H-1B. Clarify upfront that E-3 has no lottery, no annual cap, and that their legal team can certify your LCA with DOL in days rather than waiting for October cap season.
Get your job offer letter before the LCA is filed
Your employer files the LCA with DOL before you can apply at the consulate, so a formal written offer with your title, salary, and start date must exist first. Verbal commitments won't satisfy the DOL's documentation requirements for specialty occupation certification.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for end-to-end execution
Once you have an offer, use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA submission, DS-160, and consulate preparation. This removes the coordination burden from your employer and reduces the risk of paperwork errors that delay your start date.
Prepare for technical and immigration questions at your consulate interview
Consular officers routinely ask distributed systems engineers to explain how their specific role requires specialized knowledge. Bring documentation linking your daily responsibilities to your degree field, and be ready to describe your employer's systems architecture in plain terms.
E-3 Visa Distributed Systems Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Distributed Systems Engineer jobs with E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for Australian professionals searching for E-3 visa sponsorship roles in the U.S. You can filter by job title and see which employers are open to E-3 candidates. Because the E-3 requires no lottery, more engineering employers are willing to sponsor than you might expect when targeting H-1B roles.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a Distributed Systems Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
Yes. Distributed systems engineering requires theoretical and practical application of highly specialized knowledge, and USCIS consistently recognizes computer science and software engineering roles as specialty occupations. Your job offer must specify duties tied to a bachelor's degree or higher in a directly related field for the LCA to be certified by DOL.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Distributed Systems Engineers?
The E-3 has no annual lottery and no numerical cap, so you can apply any time of year after receiving a job offer. H-1B petitions are entered into a lottery held once per year, and selection is not guaranteed. For Australian engineers, the E-3 is a faster and more predictable path to the same full-time employment authorization at a U.S. company.
Can I change employers or switch to a new distributed systems role on E-3 status?
Yes, but each employer change requires a new LCA certified by DOL and a new visa stamp if your current stamp is tied to the previous employer. You can begin working for the new employer once the new LCA is certified and, if outside the U.S., after attending a consulate appointment. There is no portability rule equivalent to H-1B's AC21 provision.