Netflix Software Engineer L5 - Live Control Room Automation 

United States, California 

517458728

Netflix has been changing how people watch shows and movies, enabling on-demand access to thousands of movies and TV shows. Recently, Netflix has expanded its entertainment offering to include Live content, like Tom Brady Roast, WWE, SAG awards or NFL Christmas games. Bringing stories in real-time to 300+ million viewers around the world is a hard challenge, pushing industry limits. Live sets high requirements for levels of tooling used by Live operational teams to monitor health metrics across dozens of services and systems to make Live work.

Responsibilities

You will work directly with the Live Reliability and Launch Operations team to understand their workflows, then design and write software that optimizes the operations of physical facilities, like the Live Command Center or Device Lab. You will partner with the Platform, Network, Broadcast Device Lab, Hardware, Cloud Engineer, Player, and Security teams to integrate their APIs and solutions into your automation platform.

As part of this role, you will be

• Participating in the design of physical “Live Control Center” facilities

• Developing software for automated user journey of the Netflix app on consumer devices at scale, remote device management, enabling remote access, and integrating with cloud-based monitoring tooling

• Developing automation for audio/video and multiviewer monitoring systems

• Integrate with multiple services to retrieve and set data relating to automation

• Scale tooling across multiple facilities

• Provide first-tier operational support for Live physical infrastructure during Live events

Skills required to be successful in this job

• Understanding the basics of Live Streaming infrastructure and operations

• Hands-on experience developing automation of streaming devices and control room solutions

• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Go, Python, Java, JavaScript)

• Experience building easy-to-use and scalable user interfaces

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Analytical mindset, experience designing operational metrics

Nice-to-have

• Full-stack software development skills

• Live Operational Experience

• Log analytics and processing experience

• History of collaboration with Product Management and Operations

• Experience in leading projects with 5+ engineering and product stakeholders

• Data visualization skills, experience with time-series-based analysis and data aggregation.