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Job Overview

Position:
Senior Software Engineer

Company:
Netflix

Location:

Juneau, USA

Salary: $22 per hour

Educational Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree

Senior Software Engineer responsible for designing and implementing real‑time, ultra‑low‑latency streaming solutions using RTP/RTCP over IP networks to support interactive media worldwide.

• Design and develop RTP/RTCP-based solutions for high‑interaction, low‑latency streaming across global networks.
• Develop and refine heuristics for cost, latency estimation, congestion control, and loss recovery in RTP media streams.
• Collaborate with server‑side, real‑time delivery stack teams to integrate new designs.
• Partner with server, consumer, and analytics teams to validate and optimize designs using lab and production (A/B) testing.

• Deep knowledge of congestion control, goodput, latency, and reliability techniques for interactive, ultra‑low‑latency RTP‑based streaming.
• Familiarity with low‑latency, bidirectional media flows over IP, bufferbloat, active/smart queue control, and concurrent TCP‑like flows.
• Experience using network lab environments for controlled data‑networking experiments with large, multi‑parameter test spaces.
• Experience applying A/B testing methodologies for transport stack performance validation in production.
• Practical expertise of relaxed RTP/RTCP, DTLS, SCTP, STUN/turn, and ICE protocols.
• Ability to articulate technical and business implications to diverse audiences.
• Comfort with cross‑time‑zone collaboration with remote teams.
• Experience with Linux or related environments.
• Familiarity with tcpdump/wireshark, Python, and R (or comparable tools) for traffic capture, orchestration, statistical analysis, and presentation.

• Ability to frame and self‑manage challenging projects driven through ambiguous questions.
• Self‑starter, curious, and not afraid to ask when in doubt.
• Quick learner eager to adopt new technologies.
• Commitment to software craftsmanship, ownership from concept to production.

Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in a relevant science or engineering discipline.

Base compensation is $22 per hour. The overall market range for this role in the Netflix vicinity is typically $ninety,000 - $900,000, primarily based on overall reimbursement (vs. base salary). Compensation is determined by market indicators and individual skill set, experience, and location.