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Described as the world's top internet television network, Netflix is a publicly-traded entertainment company offering video-on-demand and streaming media. As an
Site Reliability Engineer 5 – Live Encoding SRE
Location
United States
Posted
125 days ago
Salary
$388K - $558K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Site Reliability Engineer 5 – Live Encoding SRE
Netflix
• Support our live streaming pipeline team and day-to-day live-streaming operations for Netflix • Responsible for the reliability of our live streaming pipeline (transmission, encoding, packaging, origin) • Instrumenting end to end observability and visualizing the data to achieve the desired availability at scale • Working with cross functional teams in the preparation, validation, and execution of live streaming focused initiatives • Impact multiple areas of the live event lifecycle, from the planning phase through testing and event launch days • Lead innovation initiatives, driving new features that will enhance our live streaming services, encoding & content delivery • Drive continual improvement in resilience, observability, monitoring, instrumentation, and automation with the primary goal to maintain highly scalable and reliable services worldwide • Implement, automate, execute, and analyze results from a broad range of live streaming delivery focused functional, performance, resilience, and fault injection testing • Coordinate, collaborate, and partner 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
Job Requirements
- 5+ years service reliability/operational experience running large scale, high performance systems & internet services with focus on live-streaming and video-on-demand (VOD) delivery
- Experience with video transport protocols such as RTP, RTMP, SRT, UDP, Zixi, RIST, HLS, MPEG-DASH
- Knowledge of and proven experience with HTTP cache/proxy technologies
- Experience supporting live-streaming delivery at scale
- Expert-level knowledge of Unix or Linux system engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems) at scale
- 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)
- Proficient in a programming language such as Python or Go
- Preferred - B.S. in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering (or equivalent professional experience)
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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