Site Reliability Engineer 5 – Core
Posted 2026-05-05
Remote, USA
Full-time
Immediate Start
- Job Description:
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure to support Netflix Streaming Suite.
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to integrate observability, reliability, and security considerations into the entire software development lifecycle.
- Develop and implement automation tools for monitoring, deployment, and incident response to ensure efficient and reliable operations.
- Participate in on-call rotations to ensure the 24/7 health of the Netflix Streaming and contribute to incident response, diagnosis, and resolution.
- Implement and maintain a robust incident response framework, including blame-aware incident reviews to learn from operational surprises.
- Proactively identify sources of instability in distributed systems and analyze how complex systems fail from a reliability and resilience perspective.
- Champion and embed a culture of reliability across the Ads organization.
- Act as a force multiplier by creating clear documentation, developing best-practice guides, and building tooling to roll out reliability enhancements automatically.
- Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Production Engineer, or similar role supporting business-critical, high-traffic services.
- Write code to solve problems.
- Proficient in one or more languages like Python, Go, or Java.
- Fluent in modern cloud infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience with cloud providers such as AWS/Azure/GCP.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform.
- Experience with container orchestration systems like Kubernetes.
- Understand large-scale distributed systems, their common failure modes and edge cases.
- Excellent communication skills and a proven ability to build relationships with engineering partners.
- Experience with incident management and response.
- Calmly navigate complex production issues, identify root causes, and implement effective, lasting solutions.
- Possess a growth mindset. Relentlessly curious and committed to continuous improvement.
- Benefits:
- Health Plans
- Mental Health support
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match
- Stock Option Program
- Disability Programs
- Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Family-forming benefits
- Life and Serious Injury Benefits
- 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.