Our Team
The Decisioning & Optimization engineering team sits within the Ad Serving & Decisioning org at Netflix Ads. We own the systems that power real-time ad decisioning, delivering relevant, high-quality ads while balancing revenue goals, advertiser outcomes, and member experience. Our work spans ML model serving infrastructure, ranking and scoring, auction mechanics, budget and pacing systems, and goal-based delivery optimization along with podding, traffic shaping models, and more.
As our systems grow in complexity and scale, we are investing in tooling and observability to make the decisioning stack fully legible to engineers, data scientists, and ad operations. We are looking for a full-stack engineer with strong analytical instincts and an observability mindset to build the tools and dashboards that make the stack debuggable, measurable, and self-service.
What You'll Do
Design and build end-to-end internal tools and dashboards that give the team visibility into the ad decisioning stack, from model inference through different stages of auction
Build an ad decision debugger: trace the full path of an ad request (features, model scores, ranking, auction, delivery, billing) and surface why a particular ad was selected at a particular bid price
Build model serving observability: inference latency, score distributions, fallback rates, feature coverage, and calibration health across dozens of concurrent models
Build campaign delivery monitoring tools: spend tracking dashboards, frequency cap compliance views, pacing curve visualization, underspend and overspend alerts
Own the UI and BFF layer for experimentation and testing platforms, visualizing counterfactual results and offline vs. online comparison
Develop and maintain diagnostics, logging, and telemetry frameworks that provide deep visibility into system performance, model serving health, and campaign outcomes
Engage directly with engineers, data scientists, and ad ops to gather feedback and continuously improve the tooling experience
Skills & Experience We're Seeking
7+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems, with meaningful full-stack experience across UI, BFF/API layer, and backend services
Proficiency in modern UI frameworks (React preferred), TypeScript/JavaScript, and Node.js
Experience building scalable backend systems in Java, Kotlin, or similar JVM languages
Built observability tooling, operational dashboards, or debugging tools for complex distributed systems
Strong analytical mindset with a bias toward building tools that enable self-service investigation and decision-making
Comfortable with data: can query, aggregate, and visualize large datasets across SQL, streaming data, and time-series metrics
Experience building tools that instrument or trace request paths through multi-service architectures
Product mindset that is deeply empathetic to user needs, strategic in orientation, and driven by outcomes
Nice to Haves
Ads domain experience: worked on ad serving, delivery, or marketplace systems and understands the operational data they produce
Built model serving monitoring tools: inference latency dashboards, score distribution tracking, fallback and calibration health views
Experience with observability platforms: metrics, logging, tracing stacks at scale
Familiar with marketplace dynamics: auction behavior, pacing anomalies, budget delivery patterns, and the tooling needed to diagnose them
Generally, our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $320,000.00 - $500,000.00.
Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more details about our Benefits here.
