Senior Systems Engineer - Open Connect Content Delivery | Netflix, Inc. | Los Gatos, CA
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Senior Systems 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 Senior Systems Engineer to help us develop
and operate infrastructure for Open Connect Appliances, which are
designed to deliver tens of Gbps of HTTP traffic from a single server.
Ideal candidates will be well versed in *nix systems, TCP/IP networking,
*nix kernel tuning – and be pre-disposed to preventative and
automation-oriented engineering.
Responsibilities
- Support code development of a very high performance HTTP environment.
- Operate Netflix Content Delivery development cluster: tens of
development servers delivering large scale production traffic using
experimental code.
- Perform performance analysis and optimization to extract maximum
throughput by tuning system hardware, drivers, FreeBSD OS/kernel, and
application software.
- Be responsible for the system stability: proactively identify and
diagnose issues with experimental code and drive them to resolution
with the development team.
Skills & Experience
The following qualifications are required:
- At least five years of relevant experience with operations, development, and testing of large scale distributed systems.
- Knowledge of standard Internet protocols (in practice and by RFC), especially TCP/IP, HTTP/S and DNS.
- Expert knowledge of *nix systems.
- Perl, Python, or other scripting language experience.
- Experience with source/revision-control systems (e.g., CVS, Subversion, Perforce, Git)
- Superb communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Flexibility 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).
- Knowledge of and proven experience with CDN/HTTP cache/proxy technology.
For more information on Netflix CDN see http://openconnect.netflix.com
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