Distributed Systems Engineer 6, Ads Member Experience

Netflix

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Work type
On-site
Location
Los Gatos, CALos Angeles, CANew York, NYSeattle, WA
Salary
$499,000–$900,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
3 days ago
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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 · Distributed Systems Engineer 6, Ads Member Experience

The Distributed Systems Engineer 6 - Ads Member Experience joins the Ads Platform Engineering team to build advertising systems and integrations that power ad delivery across the content delivery ecosystem. This role involves identifying and building ad formats for the streaming platform, including live events, and standardizing these formats across TV, mobile, and web platforms. You will lead experimentation to optimize the experience for users and advertisers while ensuring brand safety. Key responsibilities include architecting large-scale infrastructure for real-time, low-latency, online advertising environments and building systems for A/B testing and lift studies. Required expertise includes ad delivery systems, ad creatives, and native ads. You must understand the advertising marketplace, focusing on fill rates, ad load, and maximizing advertiser value within a complex streaming environment.

What you'll do

  • Build and scale high-performance advertising systems for real-time, low-latency online environments.
  • Define and standardize new ad formats across TV, mobile, and web platforms.
  • Architect large-scale infrastructure to power sophisticated user experimentation and A/B testing.
  • Develop systems to measure and optimize end-user advertising experiences for relevance and timing.
  • Ensure advertiser brand safety and appropriate ad targeting during the serving process.
  • Optimize publisher-side challenges including fill rates, ad load, and advertiser value.
  • Deliver complex features with critical business impact to the ad-supported streaming tier.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of software development experience.
  • 5+ years of experience in the Ads domain.
  • Professional experience with ad formats and ad delivery systems, including experimentation with ad creatives and/or native ads.
  • Experience architecting and building large-scale infrastructure for real-time, low-latency, online advertising environments.
  • Thorough understanding of the advertising marketplace, focusing on publisher-side challenges like fill rates and ad load.
  • Proven track record of building systems for user experimentation, A/B testing, and lift studies.
  • Expertise in developing systems that measure and optimize end-user advertising experiences.
  • Familiarity with SDUI architectures (preferred).

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