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Original Job Post

Netflix · 2 days ago

Site Reliability Engineer L5 - Live Streaming Pipeline

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$100K/yr - $720K/yr

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Drive continual improvement in resilience, observability, monitoring, instrumentation, and automation with the primary goal of maintaining highly scalable and reliable services worldwide.

Implement, automate, execute, and analyze the results from a broad range of live streaming delivery-focused functional, performance, resilience, and fault injection testing.

Coordination, collaboration, and partnership across multiple stakeholders for the smooth execution of live-streaming events.

Aggregate, analyze and correlate large amounts of server and application performance data. Use the innovative Netflix Big Data platform as a highly flexible, specialized, and efficient toolset for service delivery optimization and system reliability improvements.

Participate in an on-call rotation and be able to work with flexible hours based on the live events schedule.

Qualification

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Service ReliabilityOperational ExperienceLive-StreamingVideo-On-DemandVideo Transport ProtocolsHTTP Cache/Proxy TechnologiesUnix/Linux System EngineeringNetworking PrinciplesTCP/IPBGPDNSTLSHTTP/SDistributed Analytic Processing TechnologiesPythonGoCollaborativeCommunication

Required

5+ years service reliability/operational experience running large scale, high performance systems & internet services with focus on live-streaming and video-on-demand (VOD) delivery.

Experience with video transport protocols such as RTP, RTMP, SRT, UDP, Zixi, RIST, HLS, MPEG-DASH.

Knowledge of and proven experience with HTTP cache/proxy technologies. Experience supporting live-streaming delivery at scale.

Expert-level knowledge of Unix or Linux system engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems) at scale

Proficient understanding of networking principles, transport, and application protocols, especially TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, TLS, and HTTP/S.

Experience with using distributed analytic processing technologies (Hive, Presto/Trino, Spark SQL, etc).

Proficient in a programming language such as Python or Go.

Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment and to communicate effectively with internal and external partners.

Preferred

B.S. in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering (or equivalent professional experience).

Benefits

Health Plans

Mental Health support

401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match

Stock Option Program

Disability Programs

Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts

Family-forming benefits

Life and Serious Injury Benefits

Paid leave of absence programs

Company

Netflix

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Netflix is an online streaming platform that enables users to watch TV shows and movies.

Founded in 1997

Los Gatos, California, USA

10,001+ employees

https://www.netflix.com

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