Distributed Systems Engineer 5 - Ads Programmatic

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with 283 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

In April 2022, we introduced a new, more affordable, ad-supported tier for our customers, marking a significant milestone for Netflix. Our focus is now on expanding choices for consumers and providing advertisers with a premium TV brand experience that surpasses traditional linear formats. The challenge ahead involves scaling our ad tech to maximize its impact on our business.

Our Team

The Ads Platform Engineering teams build advertising systems and integrations that power the delivery of ads using our world-class content delivery ecosystem. We use a number of Netflix investments and innovations to power our ads - unique mix of client and server-side ad insertions, state of the art content delivery system, ad encoding recipes, content understanding and metadata. We deliver ads in a manner that’s thoughtful of our member’s viewing experience and drive great outcomes for advertisers. We also ensure that advertiser brand safety is ensured during serving, members only see the most appropriate ads for them.

The Ads Programmatic team is a part of the core Ads Serving group and is responsible for building seamless connections to enable programmatic demand from DSP partners globally, which facilitates Netflix’s growth in ad revenue through PG and PMP programmatic deals.  The team is at the forefront of advancing Netflix’s programmatic strategy and enabling autonomy in the CTV marketplace.  In addition to developing the programmatic offering across Netflix Ads, the team builds workflow productivity solutions, insights and reporting for users to create, launch and troubleshoot programmatic deals. 

This role is part of the company's strategic initiative to build a world-class advertising ecosystem following the launch of their ad-supported tier. 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:

• Professional experience with ad serving systems or bidders, including experimentation with signals.

• Experience with building large-scale infrastructure for real-time, low-latency, online advertising environments.

• General understanding of the advertising marketplace and landscape, with a focus on programmatic challenges such as PG/PMP deal transactions, traffic shaping and maximizing both publisher revenue and advertiser outcomes.

• Proven track record of building systems that power sophisticated user experimentation, A/B testing and lift studies.

• Strong analytical and strategic thinking with demonstrated product sense and leadership in the working environment.

• Track record of collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders from product, engineering, operations, design, consumer research, etc., to develop and deploy models at scale

Nice to haves:

• Experience building DSP or SSP integrations

• Experience working in the CTV space and knowledge of its unique constraints.

• Contributed to an ads industry technology standard (e.g.  VAST, OpenRTB) or worked on an industry consortium effort, working group etc.

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 $170,000 - $720,000.

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 detail about our Benefits here.

Netflix is a unique culture and environment.  Learn more here.

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.