Engineering Manager, Ads Signals & Targeting

Netflix

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Work type: On-site
Location: New York, NYLos Gatos, CA
Salary: $436,000–$791,000 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 26 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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 · Engineering Manager, Ads Signals & Targeting

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The Engineering Manager, Ads Signals & Targeting joins the Ads Engineering team to lead the evolution of core targeting and signals platforms for Netflix Ads. This role involves owning high-scale, low-latency distributed systems that power relevant ads by enriching every ad request in real time. You will partner with ML teams to build advanced interest, lookalike, and expansion models while shaping how first-party and partner signals are activated for targeting, optimization, and measurement. Key responsibilities include managing signals registration, governance, and curation frameworks alongside audience definition metadata like taxonomies and schemas. The position requires expertise in signal services for ad request enrichment, batch data integration, and managing modeled profile audiences. You will lead a high-performing team to solve complex problems in the rapidly growing Connected TV advertising space.

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Skills

Distributed Systems ML Low-latency Services Data Integration Configuration Management CTV Signal Services Production Systems

What you'll do

Own the core signals and targeting systems that power relevant ads for Netflix members.
Partner with ML teams to build advanced interest, lookalike, and expansion models.
Develop high-scale, low-latency services to enrich ad requests in real time.
Shape how the company activates first-party and partner signals for targeting and measurement.
Manage signals registration, governance, and curation frameworks for audience metadata.
Hire, retain, and grow a high-performing engineering team of diverse software engineers.
Define clear technical strategies and priorities for complex platform initiatives in a fast-evolving landscape.

What we're looking for

10+ years of total experience with 3+ years of management experience in building and leading diverse software engineering teams.
Proven experience leading teams that build and operate high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems in ads targeting or similar domains.
Hands-on background with signal services for ad request enrichment, including real-time and batch data integration.
Strong familiarity with contextual and profile-based signals used for audience and contextual targeting.
Experience designing and managing signals registration, governance, and curation frameworks.
Expertise with targeting and audience definition metadata, including taxonomies, hierarchies, schemas, and configuration management.
Experience leading ML engineers building and operating modeled profile audiences and lookalike models from development through production.
Familiarity with legal compliance and ads regulations, ML systems, and the CTV space (preferred).

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