Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - Ad Eventing Pipelines

Netflix, Inc.; Los Gatos (CA); On-site; USD 499,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

Mental health support

401(k) retirement plan

Stock option program

Disability programs

Family‑forming benefits

Job summary

Netflix, Inc. in Los Gatos is seeking a Senior Technical Leader for the Ad Eventing team. In this role, you will drive the technical direction and architectural evolution of the ad event pipeline, ensuring high availability and performance standards.

The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in distributed systems and backend services, along with a deep understanding of event ingestion and processing in a high-stakes environment. Competitive compensation includes benefits such as health plans and a stock option program.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building distributed systems and backend services.
• 3+ years of experience in the ads domain.
• Deep experience with high-throughput event ingestion.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of the Ad Eventing team.
• Architect and evolve the end‑to‑end ad event pipeline.
• Scale our event ingestion infrastructure for high availability.
• Design and implement robust deduplication and validation systems.
• Build and operate stream processing pipelines.

Skills

Building distributed systems

Backend services at large scale

High-throughput event ingestion

Stream processing

Kafka

Flink

Event deduplication

Validation systems

Idempotency patterns

Technical leadership

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Spark Streaming

Job description

Netflix, Inc. in Los Gatos is seeking a Senior Technical Leader for the Ad Eventing team. In this role, you will drive the technical direction and architectural evolution of the ad event pipeline, ensuring high availability and performance standards.

The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in distributed systems and backend services, along with a deep understanding of event ingestion and processing in a high-stakes environment. Competitive compensation includes benefits such as health plans and a stock option program.