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Netflix · 7 hours ago

Site Reliability Engineer L5 - Live SRE

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
senioritySenior Level
date5+ years exp

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, and they are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to support live streaming events. The role focuses on ensuring the stability and reliability of cloud traffic during live events, implementing observability, and conducting load tests to handle increased API traffic.

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Responsibilities

Drive continual improvement in observability, monitoring, and scalability with the primary goal to solve the thundering herd problem with cloud traffic (API gateway, IPC between microservices) for live streaming
Implement, automate, execute, and analyze the results from a broad range of live streaming delivery focused functional, performance, resilience, and fault injection testing
Write and review code, develop documentation, and debug complex problems between systems and components
Coordination, collaboration, and partnership across multiple stakeholders for the smooth execution of live-streaming events
Participate in an on-call rotation and be able to work with flexible hours based on the live events schedule

Qualification

Service reliability experienceL4 Load BalancerUnix/Linux systemsProgramming GoProgramming PythonProgramming RustBig Data analyticsNetworking principlesEffective communication

Required

5+ years service reliability/operational experience running large scale, high performance systems & internet services with focus on traffic at scale
Knowledge of and proven experience with L4 Load Balancer, HTTP cache, and reverse proxy technologies
Expert-level knowledge of Unix or Linux systems and TCP/IP network fundamentals
Proficient understanding of networking principles, transport, and application protocols, especially DNS, TLS, and HTTP(s) etc
Proficient in a programming language such as Go, Python, Rust etc
Experience with using real time and BigData analytics processing technologies (Kafka, time series database and Presto/Trino, Spark SQL etc)
Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment and to communicate effectively with internal and external partners

Preferred

B.S. in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering (or equivalent professional experience)

Company

Netflix

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Netflix is an online streaming platform that enables users to watch TV shows and movies.
dateFounded in 1997
location
Los Gatos, California, USA
people-size10001+ employees
web-link
https://www.netflix.com

H1B Sponsorship

Netflix has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (310)
2024 (309)
2023 (191)
2022 (261)
2021 (268)
2020 (225)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$63.91B
Key Investors
Wells FargoTCVGroupe Arnault
2025-12-05Post Ipo Debt· $59B
2024-08-01Post Ipo Debt· $1.8B
2018-05-05Post Ipo Debt· $2.67M

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Gregory Peters
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Ted Sarandos
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