Software Engineer 5 - Ads Eventing

About the role

At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. Together, we are writing the next episode - pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom and making the unimaginable a reality. We are a dream team obsessed with the uncomfortable excitement of discovering what happens when you merge creativity, intuition and cutting-edge technology. Come be a part of what’s next. We launched a new ad-supported tier 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.

Responsibilities

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.

Skills

• 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

Requirements

• 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

Qualifications

• 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)

Pay

The range for this role is $388,000.00 - $619,000.00.

Benefits

• Health Plans
• Mental Health support
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match
• Stock Option Program
• Disability Programs
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Family-forming benefits
• Life and Serious Injury Benefits
• Paid leave