Senior ML Engineer — Real-Time Ad Decisioning & Optimization

Netflix; Los Gatos (CA); On-site; USD 466,000 - 750,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Plans

401(k) Retirement Plan

Stock Option Program

Paid leave of absence

Flexible time off

Job summary

Netflix is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Decisioning & Optimization Engineering Team in Los Gatos, California. This role focuses on building and operating ML infrastructure for real-time ad decisioning, requiring extensive software engineering experience and proficiency in Java or Python.

Successful candidates will have a proven track record of building real-time model serving systems and will contribute to optimizing features and models in production.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience; 3+ years focused on ML infrastructure.
• Built and operated real-time model serving systems at high QPS with sub-20ms latency.
• Proficiency in Java, Python, or Scala.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate end-to-end ML model serving infrastructure for ad decisioning.
• Scale the inference path to support dozens of concurrent models at 1M+ QPS.
• Design and optimize the feature serving path with strict latency budgets.

Skills

Software engineering experience

ML infrastructure

Java

Python

Real-time systems

Multi-threading

Model monitoring

Tools

ML serving frameworks

Feature stores

Job description

Netflix is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Decisioning & Optimization Engineering Team in Los Gatos, California. This role focuses on building and operating ML infrastructure for real-time ad decisioning, requiring extensive software engineering experience and proficiency in Java or Python.

Successful candidates will have a proven track record of building real-time model serving systems and will contribute to optimizing features and models in production.