▲ 3 ▼ Hiring: Senior Software Engineer with Go skills at Netflix
Senior Software Engineer, Open Connect Edge Accelerator
Los Gatos, California
The Team
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! We are available in 190+ countries and partner with ISPs
all over the world to provide our 100 million member base with the
ultimate streaming quality. During our peak day so far in 2017, we’ve
had over 250 million viewing hours alone! Come work alongside some of
the best and most experienced engineers of the CDN industry.The
Role
OpenConnect
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 the highly geo-distributed nature of
Open Connect to improve the quality of experience. It is the entry point
for device and website traffic, putting it on the critical path to
delivering our product experiences. We are looking for a senior software
engineer to help us build and scale this young project. You will be
working on steering solutions, low-latency reverse proxy, failover
mechanisms, TLS and TCP optimizations and DDoS protection to name a few.
You Are
- Someone who likes to work hands-on and be self-directed in a fast-paced environment that gives you freedom and responsibility.
- Able to see beyond immediate specs, summarize requirements, and architect forward-looking solutions.
- Capable of working in a cross-functional collaborative environment alongside your teammates.
- An advocate for the customer who is passionate about addressing customer pain points.
Required Skills
- Deep understanding of the Internet protocols like TCP, TLS, HTTP and DNS.
- Experience building and maintaining a production highly distributed, scalable, low-latency, fault-tolerant 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.
Bonus Skills
- Go, C, Perl or Python
- Data crunching using Hive, Pig, Kibana, Tableau, or similar
- FreeBSD or any POSIX environment
- Application, system and network profiling techniques