Data Scientist 5 - Availability

About this role

At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. Together, we are writing the next episode - pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom and making the unimaginable a reality. We are a dream team obsessed with the uncomfortable excitement of discovering what happens when you merge creativity, intuition and cutting-edge technology. Come be a part of what’s next.


As a Senior Data Scientist focused on Infrastructure Availability, you will join a data org of Analytics Engineers, Data Engineers, and Data Scientists who partner with our infrastructure engineering teams to create metrics, build tools, perform analyses and make recommendations on how to improve the reliability and availability of our systems using data. You will work closely with partners in data science, software engineering, performance engineering and technical product management to develop metrics to assess current performance across systems and product domains, define what adequate performance looks like, understand the root causes of availability issues, and make recommendations for how the business should prioritize system performance improvements.


The ideal candidate will excel in metric research & development, statistical modeling, causal inference, and share a passion for continuously improving the way we use data to make the Netflix infrastructure better.


To learn more about our team, read here.


In This Role, You Will

• Develop metrics to measure the availability, reliability and performance of Netflix’s infra stack
• Partner with Data Engineering, Data Science and Analytics Engineers to productionize system level availability metrics and dashboards
• Partner with Software Engineers, Performance Engineers, Technical Product Managers and other product teams to conduct root cause and causal inference analysis of availability issues and make recommendations for how to remediate
• Connect with the larger analytics community at Netflix to bring more visibility ...