Software Engineer 5 – Ads Member Experience

Role Overview

• Build advertising systems and integrations that power the delivery of ads using Netflix's content delivery ecosystem.
• Identify and build the ad formats that will define the future of advertising on the Netflix streaming platform, including live events.
• Drive the definition of ad formats and standardization across delivery platforms (TV, mobile, web).
• Lead the experimentation needed to optimize experience for users and advertisers.
• Build highly performant advertising systems to deliver high impact to the business by monetizing content.

Requirements

• Professional experience with ad formats and ad delivery systems, including experimentation with ad creatives and/or native ads.
• Knowledge of CTV-specific ad formats is a plus.
• Experience with building large-scale infrastructure for real-time, low-latency, online advertising environments.
• General understanding of the advertising marketplace and landscape, with a focus on publisher side challenges like optimizing fill rates, adjusting ad load, and maximizing advertiser value.
• Proven track record of building systems that power sophisticated user experimentation, A/B testing, and lift studies.
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking with demonstrated product sense and leadership in the working environment.
• Expertise in developing systems that measure and optimize end-user advertising experiences, delivering the right advertisement at the right time for the right user.
• Track record of collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders from product, engineering, operations, design, consumer research, etc., to develop and deploy models at scale
• Familiarity with SDUI (Server-Driven User Interface) architectures is a nice to have.
• Experience building unique ad formats and ad products at scale across multiple advertising channels (CTV, DOOH, Mobile, and Web).
• Programmatic advertisement experience.
• Contributed to an ads industry technology standard (e.g. VAST, OpenRTB) or worked on an industry consortium effort, working group etc.
• Familiarity with legal compliance and changing landscape of ads regulations around the world.

Benefits

• Health Plans
• Mental Health support
• 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
• Paid leave of absence programs
• Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off
• Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off