Senior Ad Tech Engineer - Real-Time Programmatic

Netflix; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 388,000 - 558,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

401(k) match

Stock options

Paid time off

Life and disability benefits

Job summary

Netflix in Los Angeles is seeking an experienced ads technology specialist to help scale programmatic advertising within the Ads Platform Engineering teams. You will contribute to ad serving systems, real-time infrastructure, and global DSP integrations, ensuring brand-safety and high-quality ad experiences.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, operations, design, and consumer research to drive measurable outcomes for advertisers and publishers.

Qualifications

• Professional experience with ad serving systems or bidders, including experimentation with signals.
• Experience building large-scale infrastructure for real-time, low-latency online advertising environments.
• General understanding of the advertising marketplace and landscape, with a focus on programmatic challenges such as PG/PMP deal transactions, traffic shaping, and maximizing publisher revenue and advertiser outcomes.
• Proven track record of building systems that power sophisticated user experimentation, A/B testing, and lift studies.
• Familiarity with ad tech industry standards such as VAST and OpenRTB
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking, demonstrating product sense and leadership.
• Track record of collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders (product, engineering, operations, design, consumer research, etc.) to develop and deploy models at scale.

Skills

Ad serving systems

Low-latency infra

Programmatic advertising

A/B testing

OpenRTB & VAST

Cross-functional leadership

Data-driven decisions

Job description

Netflix in Los Angeles is seeking an experienced ads technology specialist to help scale programmatic advertising within the Ads Platform Engineering teams. You will contribute to ad serving systems, real-time infrastructure, and global DSP integrations, ensuring brand-safety and high-quality ad experiences.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, operations, design, and consumer research to drive measurable outcomes for advertisers and publishers.