Netflix · 14 hours ago
Site Reliability Engineer 5 - Live SRE
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$291K/yr - $522K/yr
5+ years expNetflix is a leading entertainment company focused on pushing the boundaries of storytelling and technology. The Site Reliability Engineer will support live streaming events by ensuring cloud infrastructure can handle traffic spikes, implementing observability, and collaborating with stakeholders for smooth event execution.
Digital EntertainmentMedia and EntertainmentTVVideo Streaming
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
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)
Benefits
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
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
Company
Netflix
Netflix is an online streaming platform that enables users to watch TV shows and movies.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Public CompanyTotal Funding
$72.11BKey Investors
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2025-12-05Post Ipo Debt· $67.2B
2024-08-01Post Ipo Debt· $1.8B
2018-05-05Post Ipo Debt· $2.67M
Leadership Team
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Co-CEO
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Co-CEO
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