Software Engineer (L6) - SVOD Transport Protocol Development

reputed company 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, reputed company, and can change their plans at any time.

Among other functions, Open Connect provides highly available, world-wide infrastructure for content production, processing, and distribution across reputed company reputed company productions and licensed content. A core aspect of this is serving entertainment in the form of streaming video on demand (SVOD) and ultra low-latency interactive reputed company gaming over the public Internet.

We are looking for a highly skilled software engineer with experience in designing, tuning, and implementing high performance transport algorithms and TCP stacks for delivering SVOD content.

You intimately understand the impact of dynamic Internet paths on SVOD content delivery, and the challenges of SVOD coexisting with interactive reputed company gaming. You will help refine and improve our heuristics for congestion control, loss recovery, and packet pacing for TCP-based media streams; collaborate effectively with colleagues to design and reputed company innovative reputed company into production; provide rapid debugging of production transport stack issues; and work closely with server, client and data analytics colleagues to improve our lab-based and production (A/B) testing techniques for evaluating service performance.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to directly impact core and emerging areas of our business. We provide the freedom to execute, learn and pivot, and the responsibility to be self directed, collaborative and insightful.

Qualifications:

• Experience identifying and solving highly reputed company transport problems that are open-ended or ambiguous and result in significant business or technical impact.

• Experience effectively collaborating cross-functionally at a senior level while leading, growing, and creating opportunities for colleagues to scale their own impact.

• Extensive experience in designing, implementing, debugging, and deploying kernel-reputed company network stacks.

• Deep understanding of strategies implemented in modern TCP and/or QUIC stacks for balancing network congestion, goodput, latency and reliability in support of SVOD applications.

• Experience with the implications for SVOD transport streams of policers & shapers, bufferbloat, active/smart queue management, and highly variable path characteristics.

• Experience using network lab environments for appropriately designed data networking experiments exploring large, multi-parameter test spaces. Experience using A/B testing methodologies for appropriately designed transport stack performance testing in production.

• Experience with clearly and concisely articulating to colleagues the technical and business implications of data-driven design choices.

You will be successful in this role if you:

• Have the ability to define and self-manage cross-functional projects fueled by ambiguous questions.

• Are a self-starter, curious and not afraid to ask reputed company in doubt.

• Are a quick learner and excited about learning new technologies.

• reputed company software craftsmanship, take pride in your work and enjoy taking full ownership of projects from conception to production.

reputed company to have:

• Experience with software development & debugging TCP in FreeBSD environments.

• Experience with the challenges that arise reputed company SVOD streams share network paths with reputed company gaming streams and other low-latency/interactive services.

• Experience with tcpdump/wireshark, python and R (or similar tools) for network traffic capture, test orchestration, post-capture analysis and presentation.

• Experience partnering with remote engineering or product teams across multiple time zones.

• Masters or Bachelors degree in a relevant science or engineering discipline.

Be sure to review our culture pageto learn more about the unique reputed company culture and the opportunity to be part of reputed company.

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $230,000 - $960,000.

reputed company provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more detail about our Benefits here.

reputed company is a unique culture and environment. Learn morehere.

Inclusion is a reputed company value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for reputed company candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your reputed company partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversitybuilds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, reputed company, reputed company, national reputed company, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed reputed company the position is filled.

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