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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
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Listed pay typically runs
$388,000–$619,000
across 151 roles with salary data.
Staff Data Engineer (L6) - Ads joins the Ads Data Engineering team to set the technical bar for the entire organization. This role focuses on shaping how ad data systems interconnect, ensuring coherent and scalable approaches across domains like ad inventory, forecasting, targeting, and measurement. You will design data foundations as products, resolve cross-domain design decisions, and partner with leadership to bridge technical strategy with business priorities. Key responsibilities include mentoring engineers, defining AI-native data engineering practices, and collaborating with platform and data science teams. Required expertise includes modern data stacks for ingestion, processing, storage, and serving, alongside experience with large-scale distributed systems like Spark and Kafka. You must possess deep knowledge of ad-tech data flows, including bidding, measurement, and attribution, while prioritizing data privacy and governance.
What does a Data Engineer earn?
Median $160000 from 191 postings across 60 companies.
Remote (San Francisco, CA)+29 days ago
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