Site Reliability Engineer 5 - Live SRE

Netflix 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.

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

Requirements:

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