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# Site Reliability Engineer L5/L6 - Live Streaming Pipeline

- **Company:** Netflix, Inc.
- **Location:** Los Gatos, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $100,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Application Performance Management, Border Gateway Protocol, Big Data, Computer Networks, Computer Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Software Debugging, Domain Name System (DNS), FreeBSD, Hypertext Transfer Protocols (HTTP), Apache Hive, Internet Services, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, TCP/IP, Transport Layer Security, Reliability of Systems, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Low Latency, Live Streaming, Presto, 3-tier Architectures, Docker
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25304_bd52f9d22b3003bd4a5640f3ff55ade6

## About the Role

We are seeking a seasoned Reliability Engineer with extensive experience in *nix, networking, data analysis, and large-scale platform operations experience to design, scale, operate, automate, and analyze our globally distributed CDN. Come join us and play a meaningful role in our journey to entertain the world!, * 5+ years of Service Reliability/Operational experience running large-scale, high-performance systems & internet services with a focus on performance and reliability.

 * Preferred - B.S. in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering (or equivalent professional experience)
 * Strong working knowledge of networking concepts and application protocols, especially TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, TLS, and HTTP/S with focused experience on CDNs and HTTP cache/proxy technologies
 * Skilled in designing, creating, and maintaining automation written in a programming language such as Python
 * Expert-level knowledge of managing and debugging Unix/Linux systems (engineering fundamentals, networking, storage, operating systems) at scale.
 * Experience with distributed analytic processing technologies (Hive, Presto/Trino, Spark SQL, etc)
 * Strong understanding of applied statistics and the ability to code systems that identify outlier behavior in large systems
 * Some experience with container and container orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
 * Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment and to communicate cross-functionally with internal and external partners

Things that show how we think

 * FreeBSD optimization used by Netflix to serve 800 Gb/s from a single server
 * Resiliency Practices in Managing CDN
 * Measuring Real-Life Latency of the Internet: A Netflix Story
 * Mastering Near-Real Time Telemetry and Big Data

## Description

* Drive continual improvement in resiliency, observability, monitoring, instrumentation, and automation with the primary goal of maintaining a highly scalable and reliable CDN platform worldwide.
 * Aggregate, analyze and correlate large amounts of server and application performance data. Use the innovative Netflix Big Data platform as a highly flexible, specialized, and efficient toolset to identify opportunities for platform optimization and system reliability improvements, as well as identifying patterns/anomalies for further investigation.
 * Provide technical design and engineering assistance to ISP partners to integrate our Open Connect Appliances.
 * Handle Tier 3 escalation and participate in an on-call rotation for the CDN platform production issues.