Software Engineer 5 - Ads Audience Activation
Core
Building scalable batch and streaming systems to ingest, activate, and process advertiser custom audiences and conversion events for Netflix's ad-supported tier.
Role type
Senior IC backend engineer (ad tech data infrastructure)
Builds
Ingestion and processing services for third-party advertiser signals used by targeting and optimization systems
Domain
Online advertising / Ad tech / Streaming data
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Distributed systems design, Streaming event architectures (Kafka, Flink), Big data tools (Spark), Object-oriented programming (Java, Python, C++), Cloud application development, Ad tech landscape knowledge
Preferred skills
Data clean rooms, Privacy-enhancing technology, Connected TV (CTV) constraints
Technologies
Kafka, Flink, Spark, Java, Python, C++
Responsibilities
Design and build scalable data onboarding and activation systems for advertiser custom audiences, Develop distributed cloud-based applications handling large data volumes, Process streaming event architectures for engagement and conversion signals
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC