Engineering Manager, Live Ad Insertion & Broadcast

Netflix; Los Gatos, New York (CA, NY); On-site; USD 436,000 - 791,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

401(k) match

Stock options

Disability programs

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Family-forming benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Netflix is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Live Ad Insertions team to lead real-time infrastructure, tooling, and operational systems for ad insertion across server-side, client-side, and server-guided delivery during live events. You will own reliability, define roadmaps, collaborate across teams, hire and develop engineers, and set incident response practices for high-profile broadcasts in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience with live streaming pipelines and ad insertion architectures.
• Deep knowledge of SCTE signaling standards and manifest manipulation.
• Proven ability to operate high-availability systems during live events and manage latency budgets.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the real-time live ad insertion engineering team across server-side, client-side, and server-guided delivery.
• Define technical roadmap for live ad insertion, SCTE ingestion, ad pod management, and manifest stitching.
• Collaborate with ad operations, broadcast engineering, content delivery, and ad serving teams to ensure seamless end-to-end signal-to-slot execution.
• Establish on-call, incident response, and SLAs for break-glass scenarios during major live events.
• Represent the team in cross-functional discussions with leadership and external partners.

Skills

Live streaming pipelines

Broadcast standards

Ad tech decisioning

Operational tooling

Team leadership

Tools

SCTE signaling tools

Ad tech platforms

CDN delivery

Job description

Netflix is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Live Ad Insertions team to lead real-time infrastructure, tooling, and operational systems for ad insertion across server-side, client-side, and server-guided delivery during live events. You will own reliability, define roadmaps, collaborate across teams, hire and develop engineers, and set incident response practices for high-profile broadcasts in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.