Software Engineer (L5), Systems Optimization
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Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time. Netflix has built a global Content Delivery Network called Open Connect which sets the standard for video delivery. We are also expanding into cloud games, live streaming, ad serving, and more, creating an exciting variety of opportunities and technical challenges.
To embrace these challenges, we are looking to add a software engineer with expertise in analytics and modeling to the Open Connect Control Plane team to continue to craft the scalable, reliable systems needed to build and scale all our offerings.
The Role Involves Building
- Cloud services that customers directly hit when they press ‘Play’.
- Algorithms that smartly steer customers to Open Connect appliances so they have the best possible Quality‑of‑Experience, taking into account network latencies, resource availability, and other factors.
- Algorithms and models to understand and optimize hardware utilization and cost efficiency, evaluated against intuitive and business‑critical performance metrics.
- Operational knobs and tools to quickly diagnose and fix problems as they arise.
We Spend Our Time Trying to Answer Questions Like These
- What do we need to build to be a cost‑efficient and resilient platform?
- How do we design our models and systems to adapt appropriately to heterogeneous resource availability and demand, including in real time?
- What’s the best way to share system capacity between different games with different resolution and resource demand?
- How do we make our mathematical models and ML systems easy to operate and understand?
- What are the performance metrics we can evaluate our systems against over‑time?
We Are Looking for Someone Who Identifies With the Following
- You use mathematical approaches to model dynamic systems.
- You are familiar with modeling techniques and building optimization algorithms, including general ML, static, trend, and time‑series methods.
- You build robust, responsive, and scalable systems.
- You are comfortable with ambiguity.
- You are able to iterate quickly on ideas and incorporate feedback.
- You care about building quality software that your teammates can support.
- You have a passion for operational excellence, educating others, and rigor.
- You believe that fostering an inclusive environment helps everyone do their best work.
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years software development experience or proficiency with a modern programming language.
- Experience building and operating business‑critical, real‑time systems and models at scale.
- Behavioral modeling and analytics experience (e.g., experience with Python, TensorFlow, Spark, SQL, Presto, etc.).
Nice To Have
- Distributed systems experience (e.g., Java).
- Basic background in networking concepts.
Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. The range for this role is $100,000 - $720,000.
We are an equal‑opportunity employer and celebrate diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
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