Senior Hardware Engineer - Open Connect Content Delivery | Netflix, Inc. | Los Gatos, CA
Engineering
Senior Hardware Engineer - Open Connect Content Delivery
Streaming PlatformsLos Gatos, CA
Netflix is responsible for over 30% of peak downstream Internet traffic in North America and sizable amounts of traffic in every other market we serve. To help us deliver this traffic to our viewers, we are now in the process of building and scaling up Open Connect, a single-purpose Content Delivery Network for Netflix streaming video capable of serving extremely high volumes of data.
Netflix seeks a seasoned, hands on, hardware engineer to help us qualify, design, test, and troubleshoot the hardware that makes up the Open Connect platform. Ideal candidates will be familiar with large scale operations, components of commodity server design, component firmware and driver function, *nix kernel and drivers, Systems Administration, Scripting, Web Servers, and Internet scale TCP/IP networking.
Responsibilities:
-Support hardware design for next generation servers
-Operate and support hardware, software, and support systems related to software and hardware development clusters regionally
-Build and tune new kernels to support new hardware and configurations
-Measure and classify performance, stability, and support from vendors on new and existing hardware
-Document and support new and existing hardware for operations teams
-Use large data stores and scripting to compare, document, and present on hardware and software performance and reliability changes
Skills & Experience:
The following qualifications are required:
- At least five years of relevant experience with operations, engineering and/or testing of servers that make up large scale systems
-Knowledge of commodity components market for Motherboard, HBA, NIC, CPU, RAM, and chassis
- Knowledge of data center standards including power, cooling, racking and cabling
- Knowledge of standard Internet protocols (in practice and by RFC), especially TCP/IP, HTTP/S and DNS.
- Expert knowledge of *nix systems including working with vendors to build new kernels to support new hardware
- Perl, Python, Shell or other scripting language experience.
- Superb communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Flexibility, maturity, and bandwidth to deal with a novel, dynamic and extremely fast-paced environment.
The following qualifications are preferred:
- BS in Computer Science, Network Engineering or Electrical Engineering (or equivalent professional experience).
- Experience with source/revision-control systems (e.g., CVS, Subversion, Perforce, Git)
- Knowledge of and proven experience with CDN/HTTP cache/proxy technology.
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