Software Engineer 5 - Open Connect Control Plane

Netflix
Panama
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 388,000 - 619,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Analytical problem-solving","Operational excellence mindset","Iterating quickly","Team support","Comfort with ambiguity"]

Build and scale distributed infrastructure for Open Connect, Netflix’s global Content Delivery Network. You’ll design high-scale, resilient services customers directly hit, plus algorithms that steer playback to Open Connect appliances for optimal quality-of-experience. Own operational excellence with tooling, visibility, and alerting, and use large-scale data lakes and pipelines to analyze system behavior, resource availability, and cost efficiency.

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Software Engineer 5 - Open Connect Control Plane

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Job Summary

Build and scale distributed infrastructure for Open Connect, Netflix’s global Content Delivery Network. You’ll design high-scale, resilient services customers directly hit, plus algorithms that steer playback to Open Connect appliances for optimal quality-of-experience. Own operational excellence with tooling, visibility, and alerting, and use large-scale data lakes and pipelines to analyze system behavior, resource availability, and cost efficiency.
Location: Panama
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build high-scale, resilient cloud services and algorithms that steer customers to Open Connect appliances based on network topology, resource availability, and system load.
  • •Create tools, visibility, and alerting to diagnose, operate, and maintain complex, business-critical distributed systems in real time.
  • •Develop large-scale distributed software systems and data pipelines to organize, analyze, and move data within large data lakes.
  • •Design models and systems to adapt to heterogeneous resources and changing demand, including in real time.
  • •Build automation to deploy CDN content globally quickly while protecting performance metrics and optimize hardware utilization and cost efficiency.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 388,000 - 619,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health Insurance401kEquityDisability

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of software development with strong experience in Java.
  • •Experience building and operating business-critical, real-time systems at scale.
  • •Distributed systems experience, including stateful and stateless systems.
  • •Experience querying, analyzing, and presenting data from large-scale data lakes using Python, SQL, and Spark SQL.
  • •Comfort with ambiguity and a data-driven approach to inform design decisions.
Experience:5+ yearsDistributed systems
Skills:Analytical problem-solvingOperational excellence mindsetIterating quicklyTeam supportComfort with ambiguity
Tech Stack:JavaCassandraKafkaPythonSQLNotebooksSpark SQLPyTorchTensorflow

Company Brief

Netflix
Global subscription streaming service that produces and distributes movies, TV series, and games across multiple devices, operating worldwide with extensive original content and localized offerings.
Industry: Streaming Platforms
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Los Gatos, United States
Founded: 1997
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