Distributed Systems Engineer 6, Ad Eventing
Netflix
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This role pays more than 93% of similar roles. Most pay $177,250–$270,500 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $504k versus about $224k for comparable roles.
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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
Netflix currently has 165 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $388,000–$619,000 across 151 roles with salary data.
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The Software Engineer 5 - Ads Eventing joins the Ads Reporting Infrastructure team to build and operate foundational systems that collect, enrich, and deliver ads-related events at scale. This role involves developing highly performant, low-latency distributed systems and real-time data processing pipelines to ingest billions of daily ad events from client and server endpoints. The engineer will transform raw signals into clean, privacy-safe data streams to power measurement, serving, reporting, and financial workflows. Key requirements include expertise in JVM-based programming or C++, stream processing frameworks like Apache Flink, and distributed caching systems. Candidates must understand programmatic advertising and have experience integrating with SSPs, DSPs, or Ad Servers. The work focuses on solving technical challenges within the Connected TV advertising space to ensure end-to-end data accuracy and timeliness.
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