The Site Reliability Engineer role at Netflix focuses on enhancing the reliability and operational excellence of the streaming service. The Critical Operations and Reliability Engineering (CORE) team is responsible for maintaining a high-quality experience for millions of members worldwide. This position involves partnering with engineering teams to ensure the reliability of member-facing services and addressing systemic risks through data-driven approaches. The role requires a proactive mindset to identify and mitigate reliability issues in distributed systems.

• 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.
• Fluency in modern cloud infrastructure with hands-on experience on AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Deep understanding of large-scale distributed systems and common failure modes.
• Track record of proactively identifying reliability risks and implementing solutions.
• Strong observability and performance tuning skills.
• Experience with incident management and response.
• Strong collaboration and influence skills.
• Ability to balance reliability, velocity, and cost.
• Growth mindset and curiosity.
• Embraces agency and thrives with loosely defined goals.

• Design and evolve resilient infrastructure for Netflix member-facing services.
• Take a data-driven approach to reliability to identify and address systemic risks.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to embed reliability and observability into the software development lifecycle.
• Define and measure Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and other reliability metrics.
• Build and improve automated processes for deployment, monitoring, capacity management, and incident response.
• Participate in on-call rotations for critical Streaming services.
• Lead and contribute to incident response focusing on learning and systemic fixes.
• Proactively identify and reduce sources of instability in distributed systems.
• Champion a culture of reliability across business domains.

• Employees at Netflix are often offered flexible, people-first benefits—unlimited time away, generous parental leave, global family-forming support, mental-health programs (mindfulness, free counseling/coaching), and health coverage tailored by country. Financially, Netflix pays at personal top-of-market and lets employees choose their mix of cash vs. fully-vested 10-year stock options, alongside donation and volunteer matching. Convenience perks can include trust-based travel/expense policies, relocation support, and “Work, Not Drive” rideshare flexibility.