Distributed Systems Engineer 6 - Ads Policies
About the role
As a Staff Distributed Systems Engineer on Ads Policy Infrastructure, you will provide hands-on technical leadership for the systems that define, govern, evaluate, and explain advertising policy across Netflix's ads ecosystem. You will shape the longer-term architecture of the policy platform and lead highly ambiguous initiatives whose success depends on alignment across Policy, Product, Operations, and multiple engineering teams. This is an individual-contributor role with impact beyond direct implementation. You will establish technical direction, make durable cross-system decisions, influence partner roadmaps, and increase the effectiveness of other engineers while continuing to deliver code, designs, prototypes, and production systems.
Responsibilities
- Work with Engineering Leadership to set the longer-term technical strategy and architecture for shared policy models, lifecycle and governance services, evaluation paths, and consumer integration contracts.
- Establish reliability, scalability, security, and operational standards for systems used across campaign planning, creative review, serving, Live workflows, forecasting, and reporting.
- Identify technical gaps and opportunities across teams, communicate their business impact, and influence roadmaps toward solutions that optimize for Netflix rather than a single local system.
- Remain hands-on by producing code, designs, prototypes, strategies, and architecture that simplify systems and accelerate delivery.
Skills & Experience
Required:
- Deep experience in AdTech in general, experience in Ads Policy or Trust and Safety is a bonus.