Yopeso Romania SRL is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to support the live streaming pipeline team for Netflix. You will be responsible for the reliability of the live streaming pipeline—from transmission and encoding to packaging and origin—and will instrument end-to-end observability to achieve high availability at scale. Your work will impact the entire live event lifecycle, from planning through testing and launch.
What You'll Do
- Drive continual improvement in resilience, observability, monitoring, instrumentation, and automation 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 Netflix Big Data platform for service delivery optimization and system reliability improvements.
- Participate in an on-call rotation and work flexible hours based on the live events schedule.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years service reliability or operational experience running large scale, high performance systems and 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.
- Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment and to communicate effectively with internal and external partners.
Nice to Have
- B.S. in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering (or equivalent professional experience).
Technical Stack
- Operating Systems: Unix/Linux
- Languages: Python, Go
- Analytics: Hive, Presto/Trino, Spark SQL
- Video Protocols: RTP, RTMP, SRT, UDP, Zixi, RIST, HLS, MPEG-DASH
- Networking: TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, TLS, HTTP/S
Team & Environment
You will be working within cross-functional teams.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation Range: $388,000.00 - $558,000.00 + equity: Stock Option Program
- 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
- Flexible time off (salaried) / 35 days PTO (hourly)
Work Mode
This position operates on a global work mode.
We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. 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.
