Software Engineer 5 - Open Connect Control Plane

Building high-scale and resilient services

Cloud services that customers directly hit when they press ‘Play’, as well as algorithms for steering customers to Open Connect appliances for optimal Quality-of-Experience, considering network topology, resource availability, and system load.

Operational Excellence

: Building the necessary tools, visibility, and alerting mechanisms to effectively diagnose, operate, and maintain complex, business-critical systems in real-time.

Data Analysis

: Large-scale distributed software systems and data pipelines for organizing, analyzing, and moving data within large data lakes.

We spend our time trying to answer questions like these

How do we design models and systems to adapt appropriately to heterogeneous resource availability, and changing demand, including in real-time?

How do we build scalable solutions that automate deploying content to servers in our CDN globally as fast as possible, while not impacting performance metrics?

What algorithms or models do we need to build to understand and optimize hardware utilization, cost efficiency, and resource availability, adapting appropriately to demand, including in real-time?

How do we make our optimization approaches easy to operate and understand?:

What’s the best way to share system capacity between on-demand Live and pre-positioned VOD content traffic?

How do we make our systems easy to operate?

How do we design our systems to react to failure, traffic shifts, and other changes in real-time?

We are looking for someone who identifies with the following

• You build robust, responsive, and scalable distributed systems.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity.
• You can iterate quickly on ideas and incorporate feedback.
• You care about building quality software that your teammates can support.
• You use a data-driven approach when helpful to inform your design decisions.
• You have a passion for operational excellence.
• You believe that fostering an inclusive environment helps everyone do their best work.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development with strong experience in Java.
• Experience building and operating business-critical, real-time systems at scale.
• Distributed Systems experience (e.g., building stateful & stateless systems, experience with Casandra, Kafka, etc).
• Experience querying, analyzing, and presenting data from large-scale data lakes (e.g., experience with Python, SQL, Notebooks, Spark SQL).

Preferred Qualifications

• Basic background in networking and ISP interconnection concepts.
• Experience with Live streaming.
• Experience with ML, optimization algorithms, or behavioral modeling (e.g., experience with PyTorch, Tensorflow, etc.)

Pay and benefits

Generally, our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $388,000.00 - $619,000.00. This compensation range will vary based on location.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 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. We also offer 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. See more details about our Benefits here.

Netflix is a unique culture and environment.

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully.

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