Playback & Edge Access Services Senior Software Engineer
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The document provides an overview of a senior software engineer position at Netflix, highlighting the company's extensive reach and commitment to a culture of freedom and responsibility. It discusses the technical responsibilities related to playback and edge access services, including device authentication, performance, scalability, and resiliency. The ideal candidate should possess strong programming skills, a passion for solving problems, and a willingness to collaborate and learn in a dynamic environment.
Playback & Edge Access Services Senior Software Engineer
- 1. Senior Software Engineer Team & Job Overview
- 2. World’s Leading Internet TV Network ● Opportunity: > 700M Broadband Households ● 117M+ Members ● 190+ Countries ● 2000+ Device Types ● 125M+ Viewing Hours / Day ● Commercial Free ○ TV ○ Movies ○ Original Content
- 3. With Continued Growth Source: https://www.statista.com/chart/9799/netflix-vs-cable-pay-tv-subscribers/
- 5. Freedom & Responsibility Culture Every Netflix employee has the freedom to do their best work and the responsibility to achieve excellence. Values Are What We Value ● Judgment ● Communication ● Impact ● Curiosity ● Innovation ● Courage ● Passion ● Integrity ● Selflessness ● Diversity & Inclusion See https://jobs.netflix.com/culture for more information on our innovative Freedom & Responsibility culture
- 6. Playback & Edge Access Services (PEAS) Provide server-side device activation and authentication, and orchestrate user authentication and token management via Edge Authentication Services. Playback Access Playback Access Teams Playback Licensing (PBL) Provide content licensing via Digital Rights Management (DRM) and license accounting server technologies. Enable a secure viewing experience for our members & protect access to Netflix content
- 7. Playback & Edge Access Services Core Focus Areas ● Server-side Device Activation & Authentication ● User Authentication and Token Management
- 8. Playback Access: Critical to Playback Experience Playback Access Team Domain
- 9. Device Activation & Authentication ? ?
- 10. For 2000+ Device Types (and growing) http://devices.netflix.com
- 11. Access to Protected Content Or, what happens when you push PLAY? ● This user ● This device ● This content ● This resolution License! Playback Access Services ● Valid user / device ● Content usage / resolution policies ● Plan / device limits enforcement ● DRM / License generation
- 12. Challenge: Performance / Scalability Playback Access services are in the critical path for the Netflix user experience ● Services must be performant ● Services must be available with a 99.99% SLA ● Services must scale dynamically, to support Stream Starts per Second: Using techniques like Predictive Auto Scaling (http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/11/scryer-netflixs-predictive-auto-scaling.html)
- 13. Challenge: Resiliency The Simian Army is a group of programs that intentionally introduce errors into our systems to proactively find problems that typically get detected during a production alert. See http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/07/netflix-simian-army.html and related Netflix technical blog posts for more detail.
- 14. DevOps Culture: Operate What You Build Insights into our systems enables Operational Excellence
- 15. Playback Access Technology Stack
- 16. Developer Tools: Code, Build, Bake, Deploy https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/how-we-build-code-at-netflix-c5d9bd727f15
- 17. What Will You Learn? ● Develop cloud-based device authentication and content access solutions that are useful for improving the Netflix user experience ● In partnership with device teams, develop new ways to stream Netflix ● ● Take end-to-end ownership of major features and components ● Expand your knowledge, working quickly on cutting edge technologies ● Have fun!
- 18. About YOU! ● Strong object oriented design and programming ● Experience delivering scalable distributed systems ○ Preferably in the cloud ● Bonus: exposure to security concerns / technologies and protocols ○ You don’t need to be a security expert to be successful on our team! ● You: ○ Love solving tough problems ○ Enjoy working collaboratively with other engineers ○ Like to ship and support solutions that you design and build ○ Are curious about technology ○ Love to learn and grow as an engineer ○ Consider writing code your craft and you write code for fun
- 19. Interested? Karen Casella Engineering Leader [email protected] http://www.linkedin.com/in/kcasella @kcasella Current Openings ● Playback & Edge Access Services: https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/864738 Recent Team Publications ● Event Sourcing @ Scale ○ Blog Episode #1: https://goo.gl/M7wBeV ○ Blog Episode #2: https://goo.gl/MCK9Y5 ○ QCon NY Presentation: https://goo.gl/h3iUvm