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Software Engineer – Open Connect Control Plane

Software Engineer – Open Connect Control Plane

CompanyNetflix
LocationLos Gatos, CA, USA
Salary$100000 – $720000
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelSenior, Expert or higher

Requirements

  • 7+ years software development or proficiency with a modern programming language
  • Experience building and operating business-critical systems at scale
  • Distributed Systems experience (e.g. building stateful & stateless systems, experience with Casandra, Kafka, etc)

Responsibilities

  • Build cloud services that customers directly hit when they press ‘Play’
  • Develop algorithms for steering customers to Netflix Live hardware for optimal Quality-of-Experience
  • Create systems that direct how Open Connect caching appliances fill from each other to deliver a Live stream
  • Implement load-balancing algorithms for optimizing hardware utilization
  • Design operational tools to quickly diagnose and fix problems during live streaming

Preferred Qualifications

  • Live streaming experience
  • Basic background in networking concepts
  • Big Data Experience (e.g. Hive, Spark, Presto, etc.)
  • Experience with ML or optimization algorithms