Netflix

Software Engineer 6 - Creative Studio

Netflix$499K — $500K+*
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 9+ years of experience in backend service design and operation at scale
  • Expertise in backend engineering with microservices, database design, and cloud infrastructure
  • Proficient in producing maintainable code, API design, and asynchronous processing
  • Strong system design capabilities linking business needs with technical solutions
  • Experience with backend APIs and data pipelines, particularly in GenAI and machine learning contexts
  • History of addressing complex problems with long-term architectural solutions
  • Ability to mentor engineers and improve team technical standards
  • Excellent communication skills for conveying technical concepts across varying audiences

Responsibilities

  • Define and establish architectural direction for backend services
  • Build scalable, highly available backend systems and APIs
  • Develop data pipelines to support innovative advertising solutions
  • Lead projects integrating Generative AI into existing architectures
  • Mentor and uplift engineering team through code reviews and design sessions
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet project deadlines
  • Ensure reliability, efficiency, and performance within backend systems

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Health Plans and Mental Health support
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match
  • Stock Option Program available
  • Disability Programs and Health Savings Accounts
  • Family-forming benefits and Life Insurance
  • Paid leave of absence programs and flexible paid time off for full-time employees
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 Netflix Ads org builds the sophisticated advertising systems and integrations that power our rapidly growing ad-supported tier. We leverage Netflix's unique innovations to connect advertisers with our deeply engaged global audience, ensuring an ad experience that complements our members' premium entertainment.

The Creative Studio team owns the end-to-end experience advertisers use to build, preview, and approve their creative assets. We own the Creative Builder and Asset Library user experiences, along with the Compositing Service that powers high-fidelity previews and the Creative Studio Service that powers the broader creation workflow. We are driving significant bets to raise the quality and speed of creative moving through our platform, including GenAI-powered format, instant previews, auto-assembly, and intelligent, automated workflows that drastically reduce advertiser friction and time-to-market. Our tooling directly fuels a virtuous flywheel of engagement: by removing friction from the creative process and empowering advertisers to elevate their creative quality, we unlock superior ad performance, higher ROI, and a more premium experience for our members.

As Netflix rapidly expands its advertising tier, a critical new growth engine closely watched by both our C-suite and the broader media industry, the tools our advertisers use must be best-in-class. This role is about defining and building the highly available, scalable backend services and APIs that power those tools. You will be at the cutting edge of our GenAI format innovation, building the data pipelines and service architecture that enable the massive scale, speed, and sophistication required to make Netflix a dominant player in the digital advertising space.

We are looking for a backend engineer who can move quickly to set architectural direction across our services, raise the technical bar in design and execution, navigate highly ambiguous problems, and mentor the engineers around them.

Skills & experience we're seeking:
  • 9+ years of experience designing, building, and operating highly available, scalable, and performant backend services in production.

  • Deep expertise in backend engineering, including microservices architecture, database and data modeling, and cloud infrastructure (e.g., using Java, Go, Python, or similar).

  • A strong history of writing production-quality, well-tested, and maintainable code, including API design (REST/gRPC), asynchronous processing, and system monitoring.

  • Strong large-scale system design skills, with the ability to bridge business needs and technical implementation and to proactively advocate for reliability, efficiency, and scale.

  • Experience designing and implementing backend APIs, data pipelines, and services that integrate with complex systems, including Generative AI models and machine learning platforms.

  • A track record of tackling complex, ambiguous technical problems and developing pragmatic, long-term solutions, including laying the architectural foundations for new services and features.

  • A demonstrated ability to raise the technical bar of a team through high-quality code reviews, design docs, and execution, and to mentor and grow other engineers.

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

  • A history of successfully driving alignment across cross-functional teams (e.g., Product Management, Design, and partner Engineering teams) to deliver against ambiguous, dense roadmaps.

  • Ability to succeed in a fast-paced, dynamic environment while handling multiple priorities effectively.

Nice to haves:
  • Prior experience building tools for digital advertising, with a strong preference for knowledge in ad creatives, creative management, or campaign-building platforms.

  • Familiarity with creative lifecycle management, asset libraries, creative building workflows, and pipeline development.

  • Experience building backend services or interfaces for machine learning applications or GenAI workflows, particularly in ad review, auto-assembly, or creative generation systems.

  • Understanding of the Connected TV (CTV) advertising space and its unique constraints and formats.

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 $499,000.00 - $820,000.00.

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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11,300 employees
Market Cap
$127.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.7 billion
Founded
1997
5 Year Trend
+27.5%
Revenue
$24.9 billion
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