Geo and Network Intelligence Software Engineer (L5)

Netflix

119d • $100,000 - $720,000

About The Position

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time. Open Connect (OC) is a critical group within Netflix that builds and manages a content delivery network (CDN) that delivers all of Netflix’s streaming video. In addition to streaming video, we work on projects within Netflix that leverage physical infrastructure. According to a 2023 Sandvine report, data delivered by Open Connect accounts for approximately 15% of all downstream traffic volume across the entire internet. All of this traffic is delivered by our edge cache servers. The GNI team within Open Connect focuses on mapping devices to real-world locations via IP Geolocation and leveraging network measurement and insights to deliver business value to our partners across the company. GNI is the home for Probnik – our network measurement framework – and the Fast.com speed test.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software development experience in large-scale distributed systems.
• Proficiency with a modern programming language.
• Extensive knowledge of core networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, BGP, TLS).
• Deep understanding of how ISPs connect to each other and the Internet.
• Experience querying, analyzing, and presenting data in large-scale data lakes (Trino, SparkSQL, pySpark, etc.).
• In-depth insight developing software or protocols that enhance or prioritize member privacy.

Responsibilities

• Building durable, large-scale distributed software systems, as well as quick ad-hoc prototypes for experimentation.
• Organizing, analyzing, and moving data with robust and scalable data pipelines in large data lakes.
• Working cross-functionally to get to the best outcome for the business.
• Synthesizing complex technical ideas into business-oriented proposals, backed by compelling stories with data.

Benefits

• Health Plans
• Mental Health support
• 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
• Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees