Site Reliability Engineer 5, Ads SRE

Netflix is a company dedicated to entertaining the world, and they are seeking a highly motivated Ads Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, resilience, and scalability of their Ads business. The role involves designing and maintaining infrastructure, collaborating with teams, and proactively identifying sources of instability in distributed systems.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure to support Netflix Ads Suite
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to integrate observability, reliability, and security considerations into the entire software development lifecycle
• Coordinate capacity planning as we scale up Dynamic Ad Insertion for global-scale Netflix Live streaming
• Develop and implement automation tools for monitoring, deployment, and incident response to ensure efficient and reliable operations
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure the 24/7 health of the Netflix Ad Suite and contribute to incident response, diagnosis, and resolution
• Implement and maintain a robust incident response framework, including blame-aware incident reviews to learn from operational surprises
• Proactively identify sources of instability in distributed systems and analyze how complex systems fail from a reliability and resilience perspective
• Champion and embed a culture of reliability across the Ads organization. You will act as a force multiplier, scaling your technical expertise by creating clear documentation, developing best-practice guides, and building tooling to automatically roll out reliability enhancements

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Production Engineer, or similar role supporting business-critical, high-traffic services
• Write code to solve problems. You are proficient in one or more languages like Python, Go, or Java and believe in automating solutions over manual effort
• Are fluent in modern cloud infrastructure. You have hands-on experience with cloud providers such as AWS/Azure/GCP, Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform, and container orchestration systems like Kubernetes
• Understand large-scale distributed systems, their common failure modes and edge cases
• Thrive on collaboration and influence. You have excellent communication skills and a proven ability to build relationships with and educate engineering partners
• Are a natural troubleshooter. You can calmly navigate complex production issues, identify root causes, and implement effective, lasting solutions
• Possess a growth mindset. You are relentlessly curious, committed to continuous improvement, and passionate about scaling your expertise
• Direct experience with Ad tech platforms, real-time bidding (RTB), DSPs, SSPs
• Direct experience with Dynamic Ad Insertion for Live Events
• Direct experience with systems that experience high-scale load spikes
• Experience with large-scale data pipelines or analytics platforms
• A track record of contributing to open-source projects in the reliability space