Senior Ads Platform Engineer – ML & Forecasting

Netflix; New York (NY); On-site; USD 388,000 - 558,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

Mental Health support

401(k) with employer match

Stock options

Disability programs

Health Savings and Flexible Spending

Job summary

Netflix is seeking highly motivated engineers for its Ads Platform Engineering teams, focusing on building sophisticated ad forecasting systems and scalable advertising infrastructure. You will work on end-to-end forecasting, simulation, and productionizing ML models that drive monetization and user experience.

The role emphasizes collaboration with cross-functional teams across Sales, Pricing and Science to deliver impactful advertising solutions in a fast-growing area of Connected TV.

Qualifications

• Experience building ads forecasting systems with ML models and high-performance ad server simulations.
• Experience handling large data with Spark and building low-latency distributed systems.
• Understanding of the ad marketplace and ad serving flow.
• Cloud-based development with object-oriented languages.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain end-to-end ads forecasting systems.
• Build scalable, high-throughput ad servers and distributed data processing pipelines.
• Collaborate with Sales, Pricing, and Science teams to operationalize models and features.

Skills

Ads forecasting

ML models

Ad server simulation

Spark

Distributed systems

Cross-functional teams

Object oriented languages

Tools

Lucene

VAST/OpenRTB

Job description

Netflix is seeking highly motivated engineers for its Ads Platform Engineering teams, focusing on building sophisticated ad forecasting systems and scalable advertising infrastructure. You will work on end-to-end forecasting, simulation, and productionizing ML models that drive monetization and user experience.

The role emphasizes collaboration with cross-functional teams across Sales, Pricing and Science to deliver impactful advertising solutions in a fast-growing area of Connected TV.