CareerPlan

Distributed Systems Engineer 6 - Ads Member Experience

Los Gatos,California,United States of AmericaFull-time$499k–$900k2026-01-27 → 2026-11-10

Core

Building highly performant advertising systems and defining new ad formats for Netflix's streaming platform to maximize business impact and member experience.

Role type

Senior IC distributed systems engineer (advertising)

Builds

Real-time, low-latency ad delivery systems and standardized ad formats across TV, mobile, and web

Domain

Streaming media advertising / Connected TV

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Large-scale infrastructure architecture, real-time low-latency systems, ad format design, user experimentation (A/B testing), advertising marketplace knowledge, cross-functional leadership

Preferred skills

SDUI architectures, programmatic advertising, industry standards (VAST, OpenRTB), global ad regulations

Technologies

Client and server-side ad insertions, content delivery systems, ad encoding, content understanding

Responsibilities

Architect and build large-scale infrastructure for real-time online advertising, define and standardize new ad formats across delivery platforms, lead experimentation to optimize user and advertiser experience, collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders on complex features

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC