Software Engineer 5, Ads Eventing

Netflix

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Work type
On-site
Location
Los Gatos, CANew York, NY
Salary
$388,000–$619,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
26 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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Above market

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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 · Software Engineer 5, Ads Eventing

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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What you'll do

  • Build and operate foundational systems to collect, enrich, and deliver ad-related events at scale.
  • Develop low-latency, highly available pipelines to ingest billions of daily ad events from various endpoints.
  • Transform raw signals from devices and third-party integrations into clean, privacy-safe data streams.
  • Build monitoring, alerting, and auditing systems to ensure end-to-end data accuracy and timeliness.
  • Integrate APIs and services with data technologies like Apache Druid for real-time analytics.
  • Design and maintain event-driven or streaming data pipelines using frameworks like Apache Flink.
  • Support measurement, serving, reporting, and financial workflows through reliable data infrastructure.

What we're looking for

  • Experience with real-time systems is required.
  • Extensive experience building large-scale, low-latency distributed systems and real-time data processing is required.
  • Experience building low-latency, highly available pipelines to ingest billions of ad events daily is required.
  • Experience building monitoring, alerting, and auditing systems to guarantee data accuracy and timeliness is required.
  • Hands-on expertise building and integrating with ad technologies such as SSPs, DSPs, or Ad Servers is required.
  • In-depth understanding of programmatic advertising and digital marketing trends is required.
  • Proficiency in JVM-based programming languages or C++ is required.
  • Deep knowledge of stream processing frameworks, real-time event processing, distributed caching, or event-driven pipelines is required.

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