Netflix

Software Engineer 6 - Ads Signals & Targeting

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2 days ago
Los Gatos, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$499k - $900k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop and enhance ads targeting, audience, user-signal, and contextual-signal capabilities.
  • Build and operate distributed, cloud-based, high-throughput and low-latency systems handling extremely large data volumes.
  • Improve ad supply eligibility and support outcome-based optimization and probabilistic modeled audience targeting.
  • Simplify and consolidate privacy systems across teams, including sunsetting solutions that no longer serve the business.
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, design, and business stakeholders to deliver complex features with significant business impact.
  • Mentor engineers within and beyond the immediate team and influence technical roadmaps across adjacent teams.
  • Protect member data and privacy while enabling effective ad delivery.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience building distributed systems, core backend infrastructure, or high-throughput platforms.
  • Proven leadership at an L6, Staff, or Principal level with cross-functional stakeholders and complex feature delivery.
  • Experience designing and building user and contextual signals and audience-targeting features for advertising platforms.
  • Proficiency in Java, Python, C++, or similar programming languages, with strong software development principles and design-pattern knowledge.
  • Experience developing distributed cloud-based applications and using modern object-oriented programming languages.
  • Experience handling extremely large data volumes with big data tools such as Spark.
  • Knowledge of ad technology, programmatic advertising, and digital marketing trends.
  • Strong communication, negotiation, relationship-building, prioritization, and collaboration skills.
  • Preferred: experience simplifying privacy systems and knowledge of data privacy, governance, security concepts, and Privacy by Design.
  • Preferred: experience with machine-learning-based ads targeting and CTV constraints.

Benefits

  • Annual salary compensation with a stated range of $499,000.00-$900,000.00; employees choose the annual mix of salary and stock options.
  • 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.
  • Paid leave programs; full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off.
  • Accommodation or adjustment support is available during the hiring process.
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10,000+ employees

Netflix builds and operates a global streaming service for TV series, films, games, and live programming, and produces original content through its in-house studio. It serves consumers in 190+ countries via subscription and ad-supported plans on internet-connected devices. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Los Gatos, California, Netflix is a public company traded on NASDAQ (NFLX).

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