Netflix

Distributed Systems Engineer 6 - Ads Policies

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1 month ago
Los Angeles, CA, USA +2 moreStaff+H1B sponsor history

Base Salary

$499k - $900k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Set long-term technical strategy and architecture for shared advertising policy models, lifecycle and governance services, evaluation paths, and consumer integration contracts.
  • Establish reliability, scalability, security, and operational standards for policy systems spanning campaign planning, creative review, serving, Live workflows, forecasting, and reporting.
  • Identify cross-team technical gaps, communicate business impact, and influence partner roadmaps toward platform-wide solutions.
  • Deliver code, designs, prototypes, strategies, architecture, and production systems while simplifying systems and accelerating delivery.
  • Provide technical leadership, make cross-system architectural decisions, influence without formal authority, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

  • Deep AdTech experience; Ads Policy or Trust and Safety experience is a bonus.
  • Deep experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, ideally on the JVM or a comparable server-side platform.
  • Experience solving complex, ambiguous problems and setting technical strategy across multiple systems or teams.
  • Strong knowledge of API design, data modeling, schema evolution, versioning, backward compatibility, and correctness-sensitive evaluation.
  • Understanding of TypeScript and UX/UI design principles.
  • Strong communication, cross-team influence, roadmap alignment, conflict resolution, and mentoring skills.
  • Operational experience with performance analysis, testing, observability, incident response, and business-critical production systems.
  • Preferred experience with rules engines, policy or entitlement systems, authorization, risk platforms, expression evaluation, advertising technology, campaign management, ad serving, publisher policy, creative moderation, programmatic advertising, trust and safety, regulatory compliance, high-volume batch evaluation, low-latency decision systems, multi-tenant platforms, connected TV, dynamic ad insertion, VAST, or OpenRTB.

Benefits

  • Annual salary and stock option allocation, with a stated salary range of $499,000.00-$900,000.00.
  • 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, life and serious injury benefits, and paid leave programs.
  • Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off; accommodation support is available during the hiring process.

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H1B sponsorship

H1B sponsor history

Sponsorship for this role is unconfirmed.

Netflix’s past filings provide context. They do not guarantee sponsorship for a current opening.

H1B petition approvals by fiscal year

  • FY 2026 · through Q2135

    2 initial/new employment approvals · 92 changes of employer

  • FY 2025267

    54 initial/new employment approvals · 121 changes of employer

  • FY 2024246

    45 initial/new employment approvals · 103 changes of employer

Counts are petitions, including continuing employment and amendments, rather than unique hires. Source: USCIS

Job fields receiving H1B certifications

Partial fiscal year, through Q3

  • Software Developers205 · 60%
  • Data Scientists48 · 14%
  • Computer and Information Research Scientists25 · 7%
  • Computer and Information Systems Managers14 · 4%
  • Information Technology Project Managers11 · 3%

Job fields come from government occupation codes, rather than internal departments. Counts are certified Labor Condition Applications, not visa approvals or unique hires. Withdrawn and denied cases are excluded.

Source: US Department of Labor

Matched government employer: NETFLIX INC

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About Netflix

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