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Posted May 26, 2026

Site Reliability Engineer 5 – Live Encoding SRE

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Job Description: • Support our live streaming pipeline team and day-to-day live-streaming operations for Netflix • Responsible for the reliability of our live streaming pipeline (transmission, encoding, packaging, origin) • Instrumenting end to end observability and visualizing the data to achieve the desired availability at scale • Working with cross functional teams in the preparation, validation, and execution of live streaming focused initiatives • Impact multiple areas of the live event lifecycle, from the planning phase through testing and event launch days • Lead innovation initiatives, driving new features that will enhance our live streaming services, encoding & content delivery • Drive continual improvement in resilience, observability, monitoring, instrumentation, and automation with the primary goal to maintain highly scalable and reliable services worldwide • Implement, automate, execute, and analyze results from a broad range of live streaming delivery focused functional, performance, resilience, and fault injection testing • Coordinate, collaborate, and partner across multiple stakeholders for the smooth execution of live-streaming events • Aggregate, analyze, and correlate large amounts of server and application performance data • Use the innovative Netflix Big Data platform as a highly flexible, specialized and efficient toolset for service delivery optimization and system reliability improvements • Participate in an on-call rotation and be able to work with flexible hours based on the live events schedule Requirements: • 5+ years service reliability/operational experience running large scale, high performance systems & internet services with focus on live-streaming and video-on-demand (VOD) delivery • Experience with video transport protocols such as RTP, RTMP, SRT, UDP, Zixi, RIST, HLS, MPEG-DASH • Knowledge of and proven experience with HTTP cache/proxy technologies • Experience supporting live-streaming delivery at scale • Expert-level knowledge of Unix or Linux system engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems) at scale • Proficient understanding of networking principles, transport, and application protocols, especially TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, TLS, and HTTP/S • Experience with using distributed analytic processing technologies (Hive, Presto/Trino, Spark SQL, etc) • Proficient in a programming language such as Python or Go • Preferred - B.S. in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering (or equivalent professional experience) Benefits: • Health Plans • Mental Health support • 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match • Stock Option Program • Disability Programs • Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts • Family-forming benefits • Life and Serious Injury Benefits • Paid leave of absence programs • Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off • Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off Apply tot his job Apply To this Job