Data Engineer (L6), Ads (Signals and Measurement)

Netflix

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Work type: Remote
Location: Remote
Salary: $510,000–$820,000 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 12 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today

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Netflix is the world''s leading streaming entertainment service, offering a vast library of TV series, films, documentaries, and original content to subscribers in over 190 countries. Industry: Streaming Entertainment & Media

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TL;DR · Data Engineer (L6), Ads (Signals and Measurement)

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The Data Engineer (L6) - Ads (Signals and Measurement) joins the Ads Data Engineering team to build a data ecosystem powering business decisions regarding ad impact. This role leads the Ads Signals & Measurement team across conversion and attribution, measurement data foundations, and audience onboarding and identity. You will set technical direction, design coherence across organizations, and mentor engineers while building data products for ad inventory, forecasting, targeting, and pacing. You will work with modern data stacks including ingestion, processing, storage, and serving, utilizing large-scale distributed systems like Spark, Kafka, and columnar stores. The role requires expertise in ad-tech data flows, identity graphs, and AI technologies to solve complex problems in incrementality, lift, experimentation, and first-party measurement solutions while ensuring rigorous data privacy and governance.

What does a Data Engineer earn?

Median $160000 from 191 postings across 60 companies.

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Skills

Data Engineering Spark Kafka Columnar Stores AI Data Privacy

What you'll do

Set technical direction and design coherence across various organizations to connect different data domains.
Resolve cross-domain design decisions to ensure technical approaches scale across the entire organization.
Mentor and coach data engineers to improve their technical skills and adoption of AI technologies.
Build and maintain strong partnerships with senior engineers on data platform and D&I teams.
Develop data and attribution capabilities to connect advertising exposure to business outcomes.
Build data foundations for first-party measurement solutions including incrementality, lift, and experimentation.
Enable audience onboarding, identity resolution, and rich signal generation for targeting solutions.
Ensure data privacy and governance are integrated into the architecture of all data systems.

What we're looking for

12+ years of experience building data-foundation, backend, or data engineering systems.
Experience in advertising or ad-tech data, specifically in domains like Ads identity graph, measurement, and targeting.
Experience building and driving technical direction across organizational lines in more than one company or role.
Experience building for data privacy and governance.
Proficiency with modern data stacks including ingestion, processing, storage, and serving.
Experience with large-scale distributed data systems such as Spark, Kafka, or columnar stores.
Knowledge of the latest in AI and agentic technologies as they apply to data engineering (preferred).
A graduate degree in Computer Science with a data focus (preferred).
Experience formally mentoring engineers on their technical growth (preferred).