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Internet Measurement and Geolocation Software Engineer (L5)

Netflix is the world's leading streaming entertainment service with over 195 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages.

Netflix

Employee count: 5000+

Salary: 100k-720k USD

United States only

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

Open Connect (OC) is a critical group within Netflix that builds and manages a content delivery network (CDN) that delivers all of Netflix’s streaming video. In addition to streaming video, we work on projects within Netflix that leverage physical infrastructure. According to a 2023 Sandvine report, data delivered by Open Connect accounts for approximately 15% of all downstream traffic volume across the entire internet. All of this traffic is delivered by our edge cache servers.

The GNI team within Open Connect focuses on mapping devices to real-world locations via IP Geolocation and leveraging network measurement and insights to deliver business value to our partners across the company. GNI is the home for Probnik – our network measurement framework – and the Fast.com speed test.

We spend our time thinking about stuff like this:

  • How does what we see in the network world map to behavior and locality in the real world?

  • How can we leverage network insights to improve or protect the business?

  • How can we gather more precise insights about our members while protecting their privacy?

  • How do network anomalies impact members and their streaming experience? How do you detect, remediate, and monitor those anomalies at scale?

We think you’ll like this job if you enjoy:

  • Building durable, large-scale distributed software systems, as well as quick ad-hoc prototypes for experimentation.

  • Organizing, analyzing, and moving data with robust and scalable data pipelines in large data lakes.

  • Working cross-functionally to get to the best outcome for the business.

  • Synthesizing complex technical ideas into business-oriented proposals, backed by compelling stories with data.

Required skills:

  • 7+ years of professional software development experience in large-scale distributed systems

  • Proficiency with a modern programming language

  • Extensive knowledge of core networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, BGP, TLS)

  • Deep understanding of how ISPs connect to each other and the Internet

  • Experience querying, analyzing, and presenting data in large-scale data lakes (Trino, SparkSQL, pySpark, etc.)

  • In-depth insight developing software or protocols that enhance or prioritize member privacy.

Success Indicators:

  • You thrive in ambiguity; complex and fuzzy requirements are more common than clearly defined stakeholder expectations.

  • You take incremental steps toward solving big problems; test and learn approaches work better than head-down development.

  • You are independent and self-driven; progress is often self-directed by teams & individuals.

Our team includes people of different gender identities, parents, the self-taught, the university-educated, and people of a wide variety of nationalities, ages, and socio-economic backgrounds. Diverse teams are strong teams, and we encourage those with varied identities, backgrounds, and experiences to apply.

We need you to bring strong development expertise and an appreciation for delivering detailed designs to help us build meaningful solutions. You will need an excellent ability to communicate across our team and the organization. Your experience can come from a variety of places including work experience, formal or informal education. You will have ample opportunities to grow professionally, to contribute both inside and outside of Netflix, and to enable Netflix to bring moments of joy around the world.

Our culture is unique, and we live by our values, so it’s worth learning more aboutNetflix culture.

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $100,000 - $720,000.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more detail about our Benefits here.

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversitybuilds 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.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.

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Salary: 100k-720k USD

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Netflix is the world's leading streaming entertainment service with over 195 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on any internet-connected screen. Members can play, pause and resume watching, all without commercials or commitments.

A great workplace combines exceptional colleagues and hard problems.

Freedom and Responsibility

Our core philosophy is people over process. Our culture has been instrumental to our success and has helped us attract and retain stunning colleagues, making work here more satisfying.

Internet entertainment. Global original content. Product personalization.

Our first original series debuted in 2013. Over the following decades, Internet TV will replace linear, and we hope to keep leading by offering an amazing entertainment experience.

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Healthcare benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

Time Away

Our vacation policy is “take vacation” and we actually do. Frankly, we intermix work and personal time quite a bit. Time away works differently at Netflix.

Paid parental leave

We recognize that one of the most special events in an individual's life is the birth or adoption of a child. Our parental leave policy is: "take care of your baby and yourself." New parents generally take 4 - 8 months.

Work, Not Drive

When it comes to your work schedule, commuting doesn’t always sync up and rush hour can be stressful. Work, not drive partners with a rideshare service that provides you the flexibility and focus on work while you commute.

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