Software Engineer L5, Open Connect Platform
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Software engineer building Netflix’s Open Connect CDN automation and infrastructure platform. Designing scalable services, APIs, and orchestration for globally distributed delivery systems.
Responsibilities:
- Implement microservices to enable analytics, insights, discovery, and visualizations
- Design orchestration to manage many thousands of globally distributed appliances and devices
- Build data models and APIs to help manage and maintain the fleet
- Create solutions leveraged across multiple domains, including networking, video, and gaming
- Handle availability, scalability, and usability challenges
- Configure, manage, and observe the Open Connect platform
- Collaborate with ISPs, teammates, engineers, Partner Engagement Managers, project managers, and operations teams
- Develop and deploy in measured increments while taking responsibility for work quality
- Communicate opportunities for continuous improvement to existing systems and explain business impact
Requirements:
- 5+ years of expertise in Java, or similar object-oriented language, with confidence and experience in debugging and problem-solving skills
- Deep understanding of cloud architecture and application deployment
- Ability to build and support highly scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant services
- Experience designing, implementing, and debugging systems that interact with large-sized data sets
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Knowledge of CDN architectures and networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, BGP, DNS) (bonus)
- Experience with multiple data stores and streaming services such as MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Kafka, or Redis (bonus)
- Familiarity with GraphQL or related graph modeling and querying concepts (bonus)
- Hands-on Big Data experience using Hive, Pig, Hadoop, or similar (bonus)
- Understanding of front-end technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, WebSockets (bonus)
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
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