Site Reliability Engineer 5, Core

At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. Together, we are writing the next episode - pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom and making the unimaginable a reality. We are a dream team obsessed with the uncomfortable excitement of discovering what happens when you merge creativity, intuition and cutting-edge technology. Come be a part of what’s next.

Location: UCAN Remote Inclusive

10-15% Travel Expectation

Description:

The Critical Operations and Reliability Engineering team sits at the heart of Netflix’s ability to deliver a high-quality streaming experience to hundreds of millions of members worldwide. We build, operate, and evolve the systems and practices that keep Netflix resilient in the face of failures, traffic spikes, and constant change.

We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to help us deepen the reliability, observability, and operational excellence of Netflix’s systems across Streaming, Games, Ads, and our large-scale platform. You will partner closely with engineering teams across these vertices to design resilient architectures, build automation, and continuously improve how we learn from incidents.

What You’ll Do

• Design and evolve resilient infrastructure for Netflix Streaming services, ensuring our systems are scalable, fault-tolerant, and operable at a global scale.

• Design and run opinionated resilience tests at scale that intentionally induce failures in order to validate system behavior, uncover weaknesses, and proactively prove (or disprove) resilience. When things break, you help diagnose the issue, drive fixes, re-validate through repeat testing, and partner with teams to confidently ship changes to production.

• Partner with engineering and product teams to embed reliability, observability, and security into the full software development lifecycle—from design and readiness reviews through rollout and ongoing operations.

• Define and measure Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and other reliability metrics that matter to the member experience, using them to guide capacity planning, operational priorities, and tradeoffs between reliability, feature velocity, and cost.

• Build and improve automated processes for deployment, monitoring, capacity management, and incident response to ensure our operations are fast, reliable, and repeatable.

• Participate in on-call rotations for critical Streaming services, helping ensure 24/7 availability and a great member experience.

• Lead and contribute to incident response—from triage and mitigation through follow-ups—focusing on learning, systemic fixes, and avoiding repeat issues.

• Proactively identify and reduce sources of instability in distributed systems by analyzing how our systems actually fail in production and driving architectural or operational improvements.

• Champion a culture of reliability across business domains, acting as a force multiplier: creating clear documentation, developing best-practice guides, and building tooling that enables other teams to adopt reliability improvements at scale.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of experience in an SRE, Production Engineering, or similar role operating business-critical, high-traffic services in production.

• Strong coding skills in one or more languages such as Python, Go, or Java, with a focus on automating solutions instead of relying on manual operations.

• Fluency in modern cloud infrastructure: hands-on experience with large-scale environments on AWS/Azure/GCP, along with abstracted compute and platform orchestration systems.

• Deep understanding of large-scale distributed systems, including common failure modes, performance bottlenecks, and how to design for resilience and graceful degradation.

• Track record of proactively identifying reliability risks and gaps through metrics, incidents, architecture reviews, or resilience testing—and implementing pragmatic, scalable solutions to mitigate them.

• Strong observability and performance tuning skills: you can use metrics, logs, and traces to debug issues in complex systems, and you’re comfortable profiling and optimizing services to meet latency, availability, or efficiency goals.

• Experience with incident management and response: you can navigate ambiguous, high-pressure production issues, drive coordinated response, and follow through with durable improvements.

• Strong collaboration and influence skills: you communicate clearly, build trust with partner teams, and can guide engineering teams toward better reliability practices without relying on authority.

• Ability to balance reliability, velocity, and cost: you’re comfortable making and explaining tradeoffs, and using data (SLOs, error budgets, performance metrics) to guide decision-making.

• Growth mindset and curiosity: you are eager to learn, comfortable challenging assumptions (including your own), and motivated by continuous improvement of systems, processes, and yourself.

If you’re excited about operating at Netflix scale, partnering deeply with product and engineering teams, and making the complex systems behind Streaming and Ads more resilient every day, we’d love to talk.

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 details about our Benefits here.

Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.

Inclusionis 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 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.

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