Senior Devops Engineer - Big Data Platform | Netflix, Inc. | Los Gatos, CA

Senior Devops Engineer - Big Data Platform | Netflix, Inc. | Los Gatos, CA

Engineering

Senior Devops Engineer - Big Data Platform

Cloud and Platform Engineering

Los Gatos, CA

At Netflix, we are building a big data analytics infrastructure in the cloud by leveraging open source technologies like Hadoop, Hive, Pig, and more. We provide a reliable platform for Data Science and Engineering teams to gain product and consumer insights from a petabyte scale data-warehouse. Tens of billions of events are processed daily and the volume is climbing rapidly as we grow our global subscriber base. This represents tremendous opportunity to build a world-class data pipeline and analytics platform in the cloud for our global and expanding service.
Here is a tech blog that describes the core of our infrastructure: http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/01/hadoop-platform-as-service-in-cloud.html
The Position:
With this role, you will be driving operation excellence for Netflix's big data infrastructure. Specifically, you will:
- Productize and operationalize our big data infrastructure in the cloud.
- Build cloud automation and internal tools.
- Manage our cloud deployment & configuration.
- Do performance analysis and capacity planning for our clusters.
- Trouble-shoot and triage production issues.
About you:
- You thrive on the operations and production of large-scale distributed systems in the cloud.
- You thrive on building reliable infrastructure to turn big data into insights.
- You work well in a cross-functional environment and excel in communicating with your peers.
- You thrive on working in a fast-paced, evolving, growing, dynamic environment.
Qualifications:
- 4+ years of relevant development/operations experience.
- Successful track record of providing production support for large-scale distributed systems, with experience in creating software/scripts to automate production systems with some of the followings:  Java, bash, python, perl, etc.
- Experience with Linux administration.
- Experience with Hadoop a big plus.
- Experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine, etc.) and relational database systems a big plus.
- A Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent degree.


http://jobs.netflix.com/jobs.php?id=NFX00367