CDN Site Reliability Engineer 5 – Live Streaming, Open Connect CDN

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Site Reliability Engineer supporting CDN delivery and live-streaming operations for Netflix. Leading initiatives and driving service delivery enhancements in a highly collaborative environment.

Responsibilities:

  • Support the CDN delivery and day-to-day live-streaming operations for Netflix
  • Participate in the preparation, validation, and execution of live streaming focused initiatives in collaboration with related production and engineering teams
  • Impact multiple areas of the live event lifecycle, from the planning phase through testing and event launch days
  • Lead innovation initiatives, implementing new features, and driving enhancements in the streaming services delivery
  • Drive continual improvement in resilience, observability, monitoring, instrumentation, and automation with the primary goal to maintain 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

Requirements:

  • 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 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

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