Software Engineering L5, Open Connect Platform

Netflix

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Work type: Remote
Location: Remote
Salary: $388,000–$558,000 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 10 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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This role $473k

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About Netflix

Netflix is the world''s leading streaming entertainment service, offering a vast library of TV series, films, documentaries, and original content to subscribers in over 190 countries. Industry: Streaming Entertainment & Media

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TL;DR · Software Engineering L5, Open Connect Platform

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Software Engineering L5, Open Connect Platform joins the infrastructure team to support the automation and tooling platform for the Open Connect Content Delivery Network. This role involves addressing availability, scalability, and usability challenges by implementing microservices for analytics and visualizations, designing orchestration for thousands of globally distributed appliances, and building data models and APIs. The engineer will develop solutions across networking, video, and gaming domains to manage a multi-tenant platform. Required expertise includes Java or similar object-oriented languages, cloud architecture, application deployment, and debugging systems interacting with large datasets. Preferred skills include CDN architectures, networking fundamentals like TCP/IP and BGP, and experience with MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Kafka, Redis, GraphQL, Hive, Pig, Hadoop, and front-end technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

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Skills

Java Cloud Architecture Microservices CDN MySQL Elasticsearch Cassandra Kafka Redis GraphQL Hive Pig Hadoop HTML CSS JavaScript WebSockets TCP/IP BGP DNS

What you'll do

Implement microservices to enable analytics, insights, discovery, and visualizations.
Design orchestration to manage thousands of globally distributed appliances and devices.
Build data models and APIs to manage and maintain the global fleet.
Create multi-tenant solutions for networking, video, and gaming domains.
Configure, manage, and observe the Open Connect platform to ensure high availability and scalability.
Architect forward-looking solutions that cross multiple applications and meet business requirements.
Develop and deploy high-quality, fault-tolerant services in measured increments.

What we're looking for

5+ years of expertise in Java or a similar object-oriented language.
Deep understanding of cloud architecture and application deployment.
Ability to build and support highly scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant services.
Experience designing, implementing, and debugging systems that interact with large-sized data sets.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Knowledge of CDN architectures and networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, BGP, DNS) (preferred).
Experience with multiple data stores and streaming services such as MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Kafka, or Redis (preferred).
Familiarity with GraphQL, graph modeling, Big Data tools, or front-end technologies (preferred).

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