Job description slide deck for a Distributed Systems Engineer in the Playback Data Systems team @ Netflix

1. Distributed Systems Engineer
Playback Data Systems
Ketan Duvedi

2. Netflix
The world’s leading Internet TV network
190+ countries117+ million
members
1000+ devices
supported
140+ million
hours / day

3. Big Global Opportunity
Global broadband households continue to grow

4. Innovative Culture
Values are what we value
High Performance
Freedom & Responsibility
Context, not Control
Highly Aligned, Loosely Coupled
Pay top of market
Promotions & Development
https://jobs.netflix.com/culture

5. Team Focus
Build and Operate server side infrastructure to
collect, process, and provide high quality data
about Netflix playback experiences.

6. Data Collection
Viewing Data
Playback events Player QoE Errors
Ingest > 2.5M events/sec

7. Data Collection
Device Attributes
Firmware, SDK, UI State changes
Ingest ~ 135K events/sec

8. Data Processing
Sessionize
Sanitize
Synthesize
Summarize

9. Data Processing - High Volume @
Low Latency
PDS owns almost all of top 5 Cassandra Clusters
at Netflix based on data size and IOPs

10. Data Providing
What you’ve watched
Where you’re at
For streaming and
downloaded content
Real time Operational
Insights

11. Data Providing
Data feeds
● Events and summaries
● Large number of consumers
Personalized
Recommendations

12. DevOps Culture
Insights into our systems enables
Operational Excellence
You Build It, You Run It

13. Technology Stack

14. Big Opportunities

15. Global Scale
Improve the microservices architecture
to ensure linear scalability at sublinear
cost.

16. Flexible Processing
Build platform to enable partners to
quickly explore new data
transformations and views.

17. Data quality
Improve system resiliency and deliver
high quality data despite diversity of
quality in input events.

18. Evolution to Stream Processing
Simplify the microservices architecture
by evolving to stateful stream
processing applications

19. For more info...
Details of the team’s work and approaches:
● Scaling Time Series Data
● How Netflix knows where you are in a Show
My personal experience working at Netflix
● Inspiring Culture
● Imposter Syndrome
● Interviewing @ Netflix
● Stand out in the crowd

20. Interested?
https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/866030
Ketan Duvedi