Site Reliability Engineer 5 - Live SRE

Role Overview

As a Site Reliability Engineer (Live SRE), you’ll support Netflix live streaming events by managing and validating cloud traffic flows—especially through API Gateway and inter-process communication (IPC) between microservices. You’ll run load/performance testing, build observability, and help improve scalability to handle sudden traffic spikes (notably the “thundering herd” problem).

Responsibilities

• Drive continual improvement in observability, monitoring, and scalability for live streaming traffic.
• Solve the thundering herd problem by improving behavior around cloud traffic (API Gateway and IPC between microservices).
• Implement, automate, execute, and analyze functional, performance, resilience, and fault injection testing for live streaming delivery.
• Write/review code, develop documentation, and debug complex cross-system issues.
• Coordinate with multiple stakeholders to ensure smooth live-streaming event execution.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and be available for flexible hours aligned to event schedules.

Requirements

• 5+ years service reliability/operational experience operating large-scale, high-performance internet services, with strong focus on traffic at scale.
• Proven knowledge of L4 load balancers, HTTP caching, and reverse proxy technologies.
• Expert-level understanding of Unix/Linux and TCP/IP fundamentals.
• Strong networking/protocol knowledge, especially DNS, TLS, and HTTP/HTTPS.
• Proficiency in a programming language such as Go, Python, or Rust.
• Experience with real-time and big data analytics processing, e.g. Kafka, time series databases, and Presto/Trino or Spark SQL.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills in a partner-heavy environment.

Preferred

• B.S. in Computer Science, Electrical, or Computer Engineering (or equivalent experience).