Senior Software Engineer (L5), Open Connect Edge Accelerator

Netflix

74d • $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 is a critical group within Netflix that builds and manages a content delivery network (CDN) handling more than one third of North American internet traffic at peak times! Open Connect Appliances (OCAs) are ideally situated to improve the latency between clients and the Netflix services running on AWS. The Open Connect Edge Accelerator is taking advantage of the highly geo-distributed nature of Open Connect to improve the quality of experience for our members. It is the entry point for device and website traffic, putting it on the critical path to delivering and monitoring our product experiences. You can learn more about us by watching this QCon talk. We are looking for a senior software engineer to improve the solution and build new features. You will be working with latency measurements, steering solutions, low-latency reverse proxy, failover mechanisms, protocol optimizations and DDoS protection to name a few.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of the Internet protocols like TCP, TLS, HTTP and DNS.
• 5+ years of expertise in C, C++ or Go, with confidence and experience in debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Experience building and maintaining highly distributed, scalable, low-latency, fault-tolerant production systems.
• Great communication and documentation skills targeted at cross-team collaboration.
• Motivated by 'the art of possible' and able to balance idealism and pragmatism.
• Cool-headed during production issues, able to focus on problem resolution.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Perl, Python or Java.
• Data crunching using Trino, Kibana, Tableau, Superset, or similar.
• Familiarity with FreeBSD or any POSIX environment.
• Knowledge of application, system and network profiling techniques.

Responsibilities

• Improve the solution and build new features for Open Connect Edge Accelerator.
• Work with latency measurements and steering solutions.
• Implement low-latency reverse proxy and failover mechanisms.
• Optimize protocols and ensure DDoS protection.

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
• 35 days annually for paid time off for full-time hourly employees
• Flexible time off for full-time salaried employees

What This Job Offers

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