Senior Performance Architect | Netflix, Inc. | Los Gatos, CA

Senior Performance Architect | Netflix, Inc. | Los Gatos, CA

Senior Performance Architect

Cloud and Platform Engineering

Los Gatos, CA

Netflix is the world's leading streaming video service, and our growth is accelerating. As we grow internationally, we are continually enhancing our cloud-based infrastructure to scale and improve our services' performance, scalability, and reliability.

About you:
Performance and scalability is your passion. When current and former colleagues think of performance - they think of you. You have a talent for scaling high-traffic distributed systems and a track record of improving them. Your improvements should be represented by hard-numbers and grounded in engineering principles to drive changes across multiple teams. Communication is your strong suit. You have the ability to find optimizations both within the application stack and across the infrastructure, communicating your findings effectively to others.  Your deep knowledge of the stack helps to triage stability and performance issues in production and help improve system reliability through configuration best practices.

About us:
Want to be part of a team where every person you work with is someone you respect and learn from? Where the culture supports rapid innovation and excellent execution? That is what you get at Netflix, where high performance, freedom and responsibility are not just buzzwords but an integral part of what you do every day. Netflix hires extraordinary performers and gives them the freedom and responsibility necessary to make an impact.

Responsibilities include: 
- Drive performance and scalability optimizations for Netflix.
- Define and evangelize cloud-related optimizations and best practices to improve performance and reliability.
- Develop effective tooling to solve challenging performance problems at scale.
- Assist with production triage when performance or availability issues arise.

Minimum Job Qualifications: 
- 10 years of relevant software engineering experience.
- 6 years of experience with high-traffic, large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures.
- Object-oriented programming experience with Java and Java garbage collection.
- Experience with Linux, Java, Tomcat, and Apache/Nginx/Node.
- Highly effective communication skills and experience on a service oriented team.
- BS/MS in computer science (or equivalent).

Winning Qualities:
- Understands complex systems from a performance perspective.
- Expert at middleware (java/tomcat/apache) configuration and optimization.
- Experience with application and system profiling techniques (e.g. perf, SystemTap) a plus.
- Experience with Cloud Computing platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine) a plus.

http://jobs.netflix.com/jobs.php?id=NFX01535