Analytics Engineer (L5) - Encoding

Netflix

Netflix

Data Science
Los Gatos, CA, USA
Posted 6+ months ago
Netflix is one of the world's leading streaming entertainment services, with over 260 million members in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries, feature films, live events, and mobile games, across various genres and languages. Members can play, pause, and resume watching as they want, anytime, anywhere, and change their plans anytime.
Our goal at Netflix is to make it effortless to stream content across a wide range of viewing contexts and devices – from commuting underground on the subway, to watching in a desktop browser, or projecting in HD at home. Supporting such a broad range of streaming experiences requires intricate coordination of systems behind the scenes. To do this, Netflix encodes content into files that are distributed to our content delivery network, and then adaptively streamed by a wide range of devices.
Our data science and analytics team takes a holistic approach to understand each of these areas (encoding, content delivery, streaming client devices, and apps). We partner with product and engineering to measure and improve individual features, while exploring how they contribute more broadly to member experience. Our end goal is to drive higher-quality viewing experiences, no matter where, how, and when global members are watching.
As an Analytics Engineer, you’ll be at the forefront of using analytics and data engineering skills on big data while working with product, technology, and business teams. In this role, you will be developing and maintaining data pipelines, tools, and data products that make encoding insights widely available across the company. You will contribute to Netflix’s encoding strategy through a combination of analytics, developing novel metrics, and supporting large-scale A/B tests.
To learn more about our team, read here. Visit our Research page to learn about Analytics at Netflix.

In this role, you will:

  • Develop and maintain data pipelines, tools, and data products that make encoding insights widely available across the company
  • Proactively perform data exploration on engagement behaviors to discover future opportunities
  • Identify, compute, and validate the appropriate metrics to measure success in a product area
  • Support the design, analysis, and interpretation of A/B tests
  • Partner with engineering to conduct forensic investigations into data logging, including real-time monitoring of new features the encoding team is launching to support live events
  • Cultivate strong partnerships with cross-functional stakeholders
  • Coach partners to self-serve with existing tools, and evangelize for scaled approaches to expand data access and insights beyond our team

We are looking for:

  • Passion for video and audio quality
  • Exceptional communication with technical and non-technical audiences; highly effective at developing meaningful stakeholder relationships and deep domain expertise
  • Comfort with ambiguity; ability to thrive with minimal oversight and process
  • Highly fluent in SQL for working with big data
  • Proficient with scripting languages such as Python; familiarity with Scala is a plus.
  • Experienced at building compelling, narrative data visualizations with dashboard tools such as Tableau
  • Experienced in engineering data pipelines and orchestrating workflows
  • Passion for exploring and improving technical datasets and logging
  • Familiarity with software engineering best practices (e.g. source control, code reviews, unit testing)
  • Embodies the Netflix values while bringing a new perspective to continue improving our culture
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 $170,000 - $720,000.
Netflix 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.
Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.
We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.