Live Streaming Software Engineer

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.

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About the role

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services with 283 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.

We’re looking for a Live Streaming Software Engineer to join our Live Streaming Pipeline team where you’ll help design build and maintain scalable audio video and text processing workflows for live streaming. You’ll play a key role in improving the reliability and efficiency of our live event infrastructure working across both engineering and operations to deliver high-quality streams at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design develop and maintain media encoding pipelines and live streaming workflows for both cloud and on-premise environments.

• Build infrastructure tools and real-time monitoring systems to support live video delivery and operational visibility.

• Automate quality control and alerting mechanisms to detect and resolve streaming issues rapidly.

• Partner closely with the Live Broadcast Operations team to improve operational efficiency and stream reliability.

• Provide engineering support during live events to ensure broadcast quality.

• Adapt to flexible working hours aligned with live event schedules.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional experience building scalable backend systems.

• 3+ years of experience with live streaming workflows and infrastructure.

• Proficient in Java; experience with Go Python JavaScript or Rust is a plus.

• Experience with scripting and automation tools.

• Deep knowledge of digital video fundamentals compression (AVC HEVC DD+ Atmos HDR) distribution formats (MPEG-TS HLS DASH) and signaling (SCTE-35 ESNI).

• Familiarity with video transport protocols such as RTP RTMP SRT UDP Zixi and RIST.

• Experience with container formats such as MP4 (ISOBMFF) and CMAF including segmenting muxing and stream packaging for live and on-demand delivery.

• Understanding of advertisement insertion workflows and DRM (Fairplay PlayReady Widevine).

• Strong debugging analytical and problem-solving skills.

Nice-to-have

• Experience with encoding ladders video compression tuning and quality optimization.

• Proficiency with AWS Linux/Windows CLI and open-source multimedia frameworks (e.g. FFmpeg GStreamer).

• Familiarity with contribution hardware and signal processing in baseband or ST 2110 workflows.

At Netflix we carefully consider a wide range of compensation factors to determine your personal top of market. We rely on market indicators to determine compensation and consider your specific job family background skills and experience to get it right. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary and will also be dependent on your location.

The overall market range for roles in this area of Netflix is typically $100000 - $400000

This market range is based on total compensation (vs. only base salary) which is in line with our compensation philosophy. Our culture is unique and we tend to live by our values so it’s worth learning more about Netflix here .

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