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Company

Netflix · 1 day ago

Software Engineer (L4) - Telemetry Collections

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid Level

$100K/yr - $720K/yr

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Responsibilities

Ensure availability and reliability across that scale is a task that's taken on by our amazing Netflix engineers through full operational ownership of their software.

Build software to provide real-time operational insight to our 1000’s of engineers and teams across Netflix.

Collect, stream, and persist operational data, HUGE amounts of it, and make that data accessible through flexible APIs and visualizations.

Deliver a consistent and dependable development and operations experience for users of the metrics, tracing and logs platforms.

Collaborate with both users and developers of the core telemetry libraries and collectors.

Determine and establish consistent data reporting formats across the tools, in order to support the creation of managed experiences.

Read existing library and collector code bases to submit pull requests to drive recommendations forward.

Write and maintain highly performant collectors that can run across the entire Netflix fleet.

Prototype new open-source telemetry libraries to determine their usefulness to the Netflix ecosystem.

Conduct performance testing to validate whether new telemetry libraries can sustain required sampling rates.

Provide consulting and support to both data producers and consumers as part of maintaining data quality across telemetry platforms.

Create documentation and training materials for the library and collector ecosystem.

Investigate and determine the best strategy for instrumenting third-party services both inside and outside of the protected network.

Ensure that Netflix engineers can enjoy a full observability experience across all of the services they run.

Qualification

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GoC++Telemetry systemsClient librariesJavaCloud/DevOpsEBPFMetrics collectionTracingLogs collectionNode.jsPythonTraining materialsUser experience designDocumentation

Required

Expertise building consistent and reliable client libraries and agents, with the ability to manage change responsibly across version releases.

Knowledge of the Go, C++, Java and the ecosystem.

Experience with instrumenting the collection of metrics, tracing and logs in applications and the ability to form opinions on what a streamlined developer experience should look like.

Strong Cloud/DevOps skills to help our team successfully roll out changes to our Telemetry systems for users.

A positive attitude and the ability to empathize with the customer experience, while finding reasonable solutions that drive the state-of-the-practice of telemetry collection forward to a better place.

Preferred

Other languages, such as Node.js or Python, are a plus.

eBPF knowledge and experience building eBPF programs is a strong plus.

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

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.

Company

Netflix

Glassdoor

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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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