Netflix

Software Engineer 5 - Open Connect Control Plane

Netflix
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3 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$388k - $619k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build scalable, resilient, and highly available distributed systems and cloud services for Netflix’s Open Connect CDN.
  • Develop algorithms that steer customers to Open Connect appliances based on network topology, resource availability, system load, and quality of experience.
  • Build tools, visibility, and alerting to diagnose, operate, and maintain business-critical systems in real time.
  • Create automation for deploying content globally while preserving performance metrics.
  • Build data pipelines and distributed software systems for organizing, analyzing, and moving data within large data lakes.
  • Analyze hardware utilization, cost efficiency, resource availability, demand, traffic shifts, and system failures to improve real-time optimization.
  • Design systems that adapt to changing demand and heterogeneous resource availability and are easy to operate and understand.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software development experience with strong Java experience.
  • Experience building and operating business-critical, real-time systems at scale.
  • Distributed systems experience, including stateful and stateless systems and technologies such as Cassandra and Kafka.
  • Experience querying, analyzing, and presenting data from large-scale data lakes using tools such as Python, SQL, Notebooks, and Spark SQL.
  • Ability to build robust, responsive, and scalable systems and apply data-driven design decisions.
  • Basic networking and ISP interconnection knowledge is preferred.
  • Live streaming experience is preferred.
  • Experience with machine learning, optimization algorithms, or behavioral modeling, including PyTorch or TensorFlow, is preferred.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health plans and mental health support.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
  • Stock option program, disability programs, health savings and flexible spending accounts.
  • Family-forming benefits and life and serious injury benefits.
  • Paid leave programs; full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off.
  • The compensation range for this role is $388,000.00-$619,000.00 annually, with location-based variation; Netflix’s structure consists of annual salary and stock options without bonuses.

Tech Stack

Apache CassandraApache KafkaJavaPythonPyTorchSQLTensorFlow

Categories

BackendData Engineering
Netflix

About Netflix

10,000+ employees

Netflix builds and operates a global streaming service for TV series, films, games, and live programming, and produces original content through its in-house studio. It serves consumers in 190+ countries via subscription and ad-supported plans on internet-connected devices. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Los Gatos, California, Netflix is a public company traded on NASDAQ (NFLX).

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