This deck provides additional context for an open role within Netflix's Insight engineering team for a Senior UI Engineer. Related Job description https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/866279

1. Senior UI Engineer
Opportunity
RADAR Team - Insight Engineering
Reduce the impact of fault in production

2. World’s leading Internet TV
● Opportunity: 700+ Million broadband household
● 125+ Million members and growing
● Global product - 190 Countries
● On-demand and anytime promise
● Large infrastructure around the world
● 3 AWS regions
● Tens of thousands of servers
● 2000+ device types
● Custom CDN network

3. Engineering Culture - Operate what you build
Learn more: Full Cycle developer - Operate what you build

4. RADAR - Real time Anomaly Detection and Remediation
Charter:
We help minimize the impact of a fault in production by driving mean time to recover
(MTTR) to its ideal minimum
Focus areas
● Detect - Find anomalies leveraging data and algorithms
● Diagnose - Provide actionable and personalized context for quick diagnostics
● Remediate - Help engineers sleep at night via auto remediation
RADAR Team

5. Lumen (Visualization)
Threshold Alerting
Outlier Detection
Detect
Atlas (Metrics)
Chronos (Change Events)
SALP (Tracing)
ULog (Logging)
Observe
Action Service
(Notifications, Terminations
etc.)
Winston (Custom Actions)
Bolt (Instance Actions)
Remediate
Anomalous correlations
Contextual events
Analytics
Diagnose

6. Time Series data
Atlas
Observe
Change Events
Chronos
Trace data
SALP/Zipkin

7. Detect
Trend Deviation
● Detect anomalies from
operational data
● Anomaly definition as config
● Self-service UI
● Wizard UI for casual users
● UI for power users
● Templatized best practices
● Versioning, Analytics, Audit
interfaces

8. Diagnose
Contextual Events
● Visualize contextual events for
fault diagnostics
● Event overlay on top of
graphs/dashboards
● Low effort and smart
● Correlation analysis on metrics

9. Remediate
● Automated actions to mitigate
impact
● Diverse actions (Terminate,
Reboot, Detach ...)
● Notifications support
(email/page/slack)
● Safety, Deduping, fall back
policies etc.
● Custom runbooks lifecycle
management
● Auditing, history, config
versioning etc..

10. Tech Stack

11. ● Reduce cognitive load for Netflix engineers using our tools
● Improve agility while not regressing on basics - Availability, Reliability, Performance
● Transition from near real-time to real-time streaming datasets
● Composability - Expand to support newer anomaly algorithms and datasets
● Support backtesting - Ability to visualize the impact of new approach using past data
● Improve explainability of results and actions
● Promote best practices
● Work with other teams at Netflix and drive broader convergence of productivity tools
● UX polish - fit and finish
● And more ...
Looking forward

12. Interested?
Learn more and apply:
Senior UI Engineer
Other roles:
● RADAR Engineering Manager
● Backend Engineer
Contact Me:
Vinay Shah
Engineering Manager
Insight Engineering @Netflix
vshah@netflix.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahvinay/
Some open source projects and external publications
● https://github.com/Netflix/atlas
● https://github.com/Netflix/spectator
● https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/introducing-winston-event-driven-diagnostic-and-reme
diation-platform-46ce39aa81cc
● https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/introducing-bolt-on-instance-diagnostic-and-remediati
on-platform-176651b55505

13. Thank you.