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Distributed Systems Engineer 5 – Ad Serving

Distributed Systems Engineer 5 – Ad Serving

CompanyNetflix
LocationUnited States
Salary$170000 – $720000
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelSenior, Expert or higher

Requirements

  • Experience building and operating highly-available distributed systems and backend services at large scale.
  • Experience building ad servers, SSPs, or DSPs.
  • Experience building components for pacing, ranking, scoring, and delivery.
  • Experience with real-time bidding (RTB) protocols, server-side auctions, and bidding dynamics.
  • Strong understanding of advertising concepts: publisher policies, frequency caps, and targeting.
  • Strong understanding of inventory management, demand/supply optimization, and forecasting methodologies.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills for effective work with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure seamless and reliable delivery of ads across all platforms, devices, and user environments.
  • Support Netflix’s revenue growth through effective monetization of content and delivering exceptional outcomes for advertisers.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Contributed to an ads industry technology standard or worked on an industry consortium effort, working group etc.
  • Experience working in the CTV space and knowledge of its unique constraints.
  • Experience collaborating with Ads operation teams.
  • Familiarity with handling data at extremely large volumes.
  • Familiarity with building end-to-end ML model deployment and inference infrastructure for low-latency real-time ad systems.