Network Test Engineer 4 – Open Connect

Netflix • Los Gatos, CA

7h

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.
Netflix is responsible for double-digit percentages of the traffic on Internet access networks at peak times, and we’re working collaboratively with Internet Service Providers to ensure that our great content is delivered in a manner that is both highly efficient and cost-effective. Today, we deliver 100% of Netflix content to 190 countries via Open Connect, our purpose-built content delivery network. We also strive to deliver a world-class ecosystem to our content creators in every stage of the production process through technology and collaboration enabled by network solutions. We need great network professionals to help us manage the remarkable challenge and opportunity in these environments.
As a Network Test Engineer, you will design network testing solutions for our network backbone, our Corporate offices, our creative production workflows, and our data center networks globally. You will own network test strategy end-to-end - from test design through execution and analysis - while partnering closely with our internal Networking teams and external vendors to ensure our solutions perform as expected.
This role requires a proficient collaborator with a broad set of network engineering skills, a dev-ops/automation-forward mindset to network testing, and an impressive past of unique career and life experiences to bring to our diverse team of experts.
There are multiple disciplines that this team needs to support. We’re looking for a network test engineer with experience designing and testing backbone, campus and data center networks with particular focus on testing and automation. This skillset should include in-depth understanding of networking technologies.

Requirements

• Master's or Bachelor's degree in a relevant science or engineering field, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in networking fields with demonstrable technical experience in content delivery, media, ISP, CDN, or large-scale internet environments.
• Strong knowledge of network testing strategy, automation, and iterative design.
• Experience managing, developing, or working in a lab environment for both product or feature development and for regression or defect testing against a production environment. This experience would also include using automation and off-the-shelf test equipment, and software in a test environment
• Experience with using IXIA and/or Spirent IP test equipment and tooling
• Experience in vendor engagement, including managing technical relationships and troubleshooting
• Experience in design and implementation of technologies in Campus architecture. including Layer 2 stretch technologies, voice and video collaboration, and zero-trust standards for scalable security models
• Strong understanding of IP routing, particularly BGP, ISIS with an understanding of the Internet ecosystem
• Solid understanding of content delivery, data center, and enterprise networking concepts and technologies
• Familiarity with large-scale multi-vendor (Arista, Cisco, Juniper, Nokia) networks with global footprints
• Familiarity with network automation. Basic experience in a scripting language or programming
• Exposure to VXLAN technologies and MPLS L2 and L3 VPNs
• Exposure to modeling and designing network topologies with consideration to technologies such as MPLS-TE
• Exposure to optical transport systems for metropolitan area networks
• Self-starter, curious, and not afraid to ask when in doubt
• Highly effective verbal and written communicator to both technical and non-technical audiences inside and outside of Netflix
• Demonstrates good judgment by taking a collaborative approach to engineering, participating in cross-functional working groups, and mapping requirements to solutions
• Communicates work status, impact, and progress to the team, learning to measure impact and progress
• Communicates and collaborates effectively with immediate team peers and cross-functional project teams
• Understands and applies Netflix's core values, holding themselves and others accountable, and is comfortable speaking up when they have a different opinion
• Location specific to the Bay Area.
• Periodic travel within the United States for offsites, conferences, and technical meetings

Responsibilities

• Working closely with Network Architecture and Engineering teams to build, refine, and evolve how we validate hardware and software for Netflix’s Backbone, CDN infrastructure, data centers, and campus networks.
• Creating a full end-to-end network test strategy for hardware and software, and subsequently deliver test results to other teams that will plan, deploy, operate and deprecate these designs
• Develop technical documentation, diagrams, and templates while being rigorous in maintaining the accuracy and relevancy of developed materials
• Provide technical support and guidance for operational matters
• Liaison for operational and deployment teams into our lab environments for both managed and self-serve testing

What This Job Offers

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