Netflix · 12 hours ago
Site Reliability Engineer 5 - Live Encoding SRE
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$388K/yr - $558K/yr
5+ years expNetflix is a company dedicated to entertaining the world by pushing the boundaries of storytelling and technology. The Live Streaming Pipeline SRE role involves supporting live streaming operations, ensuring the reliability of the live streaming pipeline, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance live streaming services.
Digital EntertainmentMedia and EntertainmentTVVideo Streaming
Responsibilities
Drive continual improvement in resilience, observability, monitoring, instrumentation, and automation with the primary goal to maintain 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
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
A 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
35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off
Flexible time off
Company
Netflix
Netflix is an online streaming platform that enables users to watch TV shows and movies.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$72.11BKey Investors
Wells FargoTCVGroupe Arnault
2025-12-05Post Ipo Debt· $67.2B
2024-08-01Post Ipo Debt· $1.8B
2018-05-05Post Ipo Debt· $2.67M
Leadership Team
Gregory Peters
Co-CEO
Ted Sarandos
Co-CEO
Recent News
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