Software Engineer (L5) - Cloud Gaming Transport R&D
Company: Netflix
Location: Remote (Remote)
Type: Full-time
Level: Senior
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-02-10
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.
The Open Connect organization is a critical group within Netflix that builds and manages a global Content Delivery Network that delivers all of Netflix’s streaming video, including Live content, Cloud Gaming, and Advertising. Our nascent cloud gaming service delivers entertainment using real-time, ultra low-latency network transport technologies.
We are looking for a senior software engineer with experience designing & implementing highly-interactive, ultra-low latency, bi-directional streams over the public Internet. In particular, you have a deep understanding of how the dynamically varying characteristics of internet paths influence the design and implementation of performant cloud gaming transport protocols.
You will help refine and improve our understanding of network path characteristics (including in-home WiFi behavior, bufferbloat mitigation on shared access links, and so forth); refine and import our heuristics for rate & latency estimation, rate adaptation, congestion control, and loss recovery for RTP-based media streams; collaborate with colleagues to implement and deploy new ideas in our server-side transport stack; 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 an emerging area of business. We provide the freedom to execute, learn and pivot, and the responsibility to be self directed, collaborative and insightful.
Qualifications & Experience:
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