Netflix CDN Site Reliability Engineer L4/L5 - Live Streaming Open Connect 

United States, California 

336570616

In this role, you will support the CDN delivery and day-to-day live-streaming operations for Netflix. As a Live CDN SRE, you will be participating in the preparation, validation, and execution of live streaming focused initiatives in collaboration with related production and engineering teams.

You will impact multiple areas of the live event lifecycle, from the planning phase through testing and event launch days. You will lead innovation initiatives, implement new features, and drive enhancements in streaming service delivery.

Responsibilities

• Drive continual improvement in resilience, observability, monitoring, instrumentation, and automation with the primary goal of maintaining highly scalable and reliable CDN services worldwide with excellent quality of experience (QoE)

• Implement, automate, execute, and analyze the results from a broad range of streaming CDN 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, including weekends and holidays

Qualifications

• Proficient in a programming language such as Python or Go

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

• Knowledge of and proven experience with CDNs and HTTP cache/proxy technologies. Experience supporting live-streaming CDN delivery on a large scale is a plus

• Expert-level knowledge of Unix or Linux system engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems) at scale. We happen to use FreeBSD

• 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)

• 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)

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.