Systems Development Engineer 5 - Live Media Asset Management

Netflix is a leading entertainment company focused on pushing the boundaries of storytelling and technology. They are seeking a Senior Systems Development Engineer to build and operate their Live Media Asset Management platform, focusing on systems architecture, reliability, and integration with third-party MAM applications.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and automate systems and services that power the Live MAM platform (e.g., ingest orchestration, media/metadata normalization, rights‑aware services, timecode‑driven workflows)
• Build and maintain integration services that sit between third‑party MAM applications and Netflix core software services, ensuring secure, reliable, and well‑governed data and control flows
• Integrate and operationalize a third‑party MAM within Netflix’s hybrid infrastructure, ensuring coherent, reliable media and metadata flows across on‑prem and cloud systems
• Define and implement robust data and systems models for live media assets, metadata, rights and restrictions, and time‑aligned events, with a focus on performance, reliability, and operability
• Develop infrastructure, tooling, and automation for deployment, configuration management, and lifecycle management of MAM‑related services and integration components
• Improve observability and reliability by building monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing for time‑critical live workflows; drive incident response, postmortems, and long‑term remediation
• Collaborate across engineering, production, operations, and vendor teams to deliver end‑to‑end live and near‑live workflows, ensuring systems are scalable, supportable, and well‑documented
• Work with AI/ML teams and services to integrate automated tagging, indexing, and enrichment into the MAM ecosystem in a reliable, scalable way
• Own systems in production, including capacity planning, performance tuning, resiliency design (failover, redundancy, DR), and participation in on‑call rotations for live workflows

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience building, integrating, and operating large-scale systems or platform services in production environments
• Hands-on experience with Media Asset Management (MAM) platforms is required, including design, integration, and day-to-day operation in production
• Strong foundation in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and systems design (scalability, resiliency, consistency)
• Proven experience with integrating third-party MAM systems into in-house infrastructure and workflows at scale
• Comfortable working in a hybrid cloud + on-prem environment; able to reason about large-scale storage, transcoding, networking, and messaging systems
• Platform and systems mindset: you design reusable components, integration layers, automation, and clear service boundaries to support multiple internal customers
• Care deeply about reliability, observability, and operational excellence, especially for time-sensitive live workflows
• Strong collaborator who can work effectively with engineering, product, operations, and vendor partners
• Self-directed, pragmatic, and comfortable operating with freedom and responsibility
• Experience with live sports media workflows or Live Sports MAM (e.g., multi-feed ingest, melts/highlights, sports-specific metadata and stats integration)
• Prior work integrating and operationalizing vendor MAM systems within in-house media infrastructure at scale
• Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and configuration management (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Salt, Ansible, or similar) for complex, hybrid systems