Netflix

Software Engineer 5 - Ads Eventing

Netflix$388K — $500K+*
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience with real-time systems
  • Proven track record in large-scale, low-latency distributed systems
  • Hands-on experience building low-latency ad event ingestion pipelines
  • Expertise in monitoring and auditing data systems
  • Familiarity with ad technologies like SSPs and DSPs
  • Strong programming skills in JVM languages or C++
  • Ability to handle multiple priorities in a dynamic environment

Responsibilities

  • Develop and manage real-time data processing systems for ads-events
  • Ensure high availability in ingesting billions of ad events daily
  • Build monitoring systems for data accuracy and completeness
  • Integrate with existing ad technologies for operational efficiency
  • Design and optimize event-driven data pipelines
  • Communicate effectively with cross-functional teams
  • Drive initiatives to enhance ad tech infrastructure

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health plans including mental health support
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Stock option program
  • Flexible spending accounts for health and dependent care
  • Paid leave of up to 35 days annually for full-time hourly employees
  • Immediate flexible time off for salaried employees
  • Family-forming benefits and life insurance coverage
Full Job Description

in November 2022 to offer our members more choice in how they consume their content. Our new tier allows us to attract new members at a lower price point while also creating a compelling path for advertisers to reach deeply engaged audiences.

Our Team

The Ads Platform Engineering creates the ecosystem that spans across the “Pitch to Pay” process. It goes all the way from enabling our sales teams (and other DSPs, resellers) to engage advertisers to run their campaigns on Netflix, and cuts across inventory and order management, campaign execution, ad serving, audience onboarding, targeting and delivery, measurement, reporting and finance.

Our team is new, yet we have enormous ambitions of building highly performant advertising systems and delivering high impact to our business by monetizing our incredible slate of content. As one of the newest entrants in the rapidly growing Connected TV advertising space, we seek to build unique value propositions that help us differentiate from the competition and become a market leader in record time.

The Ads Reporting Infrastructure team builds and operates the foundational systems that collect, enrich, and deliver ads-related events at scale. These systems ensure that raw signals from client devices, servers, and third-party integrations are transformed into clean, reliable, and privacy-safe data streams powering measurement, serving, reporting, and financial workflows.

We are looking for highly motivated engineers working in the advertising space who are excited to join us on this journey.

Skills & experience we’re seeking:
  • Experience with real-time systems a must

  • Extensive experience in building large-scale, low-latency distributed systems and real-time data processing

  • Experience building low-latency, highly available pipelines to ingest billions of ad events daily from client and server endpoints.

  • Experience building monitoring, alerting, and auditing systems to guarantee end-to-end data accuracy, timeliness, and completeness.

  • Hands-on expertise building and integrating with ad technologies such as SSPs, DSPs, or Ad Servers. In-depth understanding of programmatic advertising.

  • Expertise in building and integrating APIs and services with data technologies such as Apache Druid for real-time analytics and data processing

  • Broad knowledge of ad tech and advertising landscape, programmatic advertising, and digital marketing trends.

  • Developed many cloud-based applications and comfortable with modern programming languages (preferably object-oriented)

  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities effectively.

  • Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.

Must-haves:

  • JVM based programming language (or C++)

  • Deep knowledge of at least one of these:

  • Stream processing frameworks (e.g., Apache Flink)

  • Real-time event processing systems

  • Distributed caching system

  • Experience designing event-driven or streaming data pipelines

  • Experience working in Pacing and Budgeting teams at large advertising companies

Nice to haves:

  • Experience with Apache Flink or similar streaming frameworks

  • Experience with ads infrastructure (ad serving, pacing, budgeting, measurement, or attribution)

  • Experience building event ingestion pipelines

  • Familiarity with streaming analytics systems

  • Experience working with large-scale event pipelines (millions+ events/sec)

  • Streaming Analytics

  • Ads serving

  • Experience working in Ad Serving teams (DSP or SSP)

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 $388,000.00 - $558,000.00.

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.

About Netflix

Netflix, Inc. is an American media company founded on August 29, 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, and currently based in Los Gatos, California, with production offices and stages at the Los Angeles-based Hollywood studios (formerly old Warner Brothers studios) and the Albuquerque Studios (formerly ABQ studios). It operates an eponymous over-the-top subscription video on-demand service, which showcases acquired and original programming as well as third-party content licensed from other production companies and distributors. Netflix is also the first streaming media company to be a member of the Motion Picture Association.
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