Software Engineering 5 - Ads Agent (Agentic Platform for Enterprise)

Netflix, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 388,000 - 558,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Plans

Mental Health support

401(k) Retirement Plan with employer  

Stock Option Program

Disability Programs

Health Savings and Flexible Spending

Family-forming benefits

Life and Serious Injury Benefits

paid leave of absence programs

Full-time hourly employees accrue 35‑d

Full-time salaried employees flexible

Job summary

Netflix seeks a seasoned engineer to lead Ads Platform Foundations, building core platform primitives and tooling for agent-based systems. You will define APIs/SDKs for domain teams to plug in enterprise use cases and will own the reliability and observability of the platform.

Expect fast iteration and collaboration with multiple engineering squads. Strong experience in GenAI in enterprise contexts, platforms/SDKs, and a proven track record of shipping large systems quickly are essential.

Qualifications

• Real, hands‑on GenAI experience in enterprise contexts.
• Experience building platforms, frameworks, or SDKs consumed by other engineering teams.
• Demonstrated high shipping velocity with new systems.
• Backgrounds dominated by maintaining legacy systems is not a fit.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core platform primitives - agent framework, tool/skill registry, orchestration runtime, memory and retrieval infrastructure, evaluation harness - for other domain teams to build their own agents and skills.
• Define APIs/SDKs and integration patterns so domain teams can plug in their own enterprise use cases without rebuilding core agent infrastructure.
• Build and iterate on the platform's tool/function-calling framework, planning/orchestration layer, memory, and retrieval subsystems.
• Explore entity/knowledge graphs as a shared grounding/context layer that multiple agents can draw on.
• Partner with domain teams to understand their use cases and shape the platform's building blocks and roadmap accordingly.
• Own platform reliability, evaluation/observability tooling, and guardrails that other teams' agents inherit for free.
• Ship fast - take things from prototype to a platform primitive other teams can adopt, with tight iteration cycles.

Skills

GenAI experience

Platform development

APIs/SDK design

Shipping velocity

Tools

SpringAI

LangGraph

LlamaIndex

AutoGen

Job description

At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. Together, we are writing the next episode - pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom and making the unimaginable a reality. We are a dream team obsessed with the uncomfortable excitement of discovering what happens when you merge creativity, intuition and cutting-edge technology. Come be a part of what's next. Since launching our ad-supported tier in 2022, the momentum has been unstoppable - we reach over 94 million global monthly active users! As we enter our fourth year, our ambition is massive, and we are just getting started.

The Team The Ads Platform Foundations team builds the core platforms, frameworks, and shared services that accelerate development across the Ads organization. We focus on enabling teams to move faster and build consistently through scalable UI infrastructure, common components, and foundational workflows. Our work also powers access control across domains and underpins core systems such as Public API, GenAI foundations, and the Ads Entity Service - a knowledge graph connecting all Ads entities. Together, we provide the technical backbone that drives consistency, reliability, and velocity across Ads.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core platform primitives - agent framework, tool/skill registry, orchestration runtime, memory and retrieval infrastructure, evaluation harness - that other domain teams use to build their own agents and skills.
• Define APIs/SDKs and integration patterns so domain teams can plug in their own enterprise (non-coding) use cases without rebuilding core agent infrastructure.
• Build and iterate on the platform's tool/function-calling framework, planning/orchestration layer, memory, and retrieval subsystems.
• Explore entity/knowledge graphs as a shared grounding/context layer that multiple agents on the platform can draw on.
• Partner with domain teams to understand their use cases and shape the platform's building blocks and roadmap accordingly.
• Own platform reliability, evaluation/observability tooling, and guardrails that other teams' agents inherit for free.
• Ship fast - take things from prototype to a platform primitive other teams can adopt, with tight iteration cycles.

Must-have qualifications

• Real, hands‑on GenAI experience in enterprise contexts - not coding assistants or developer tools. Customer/partner-facing or internal process automation both count.
• Experience building platforms, frameworks, or SDKs consumed by other engineering teams - not just point solutions. This role is about building the thing other teams build on top of.
• Demonstrated high shipping velocity - a track record of building and launching new systems quickly and working comfortably with ambiguity.
• Backgrounds dominated by maintaining legacy systems are not a fit here.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals - production-grade systems, API/SDK design, backend engineering.
• Experience with agent-system building blocks: tool/function calling, orchestration, retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), prompt/context engineering.

Nice‑to‑have

• Experience with entity/knowledge graphs - modeling entities and relations, graph-based retrieval, graph databases, or graph‑augmented RAG (useful as a shared grounding layer across agents on the platform).
• Experience with agent frameworks (SpringAI, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, AutoGen) or having built comparable orchestration frameworks in-house.
• Experience in ads/marketing tech.
• Familiarity with evaluation frameworks for LLM/agent quality.

Generally, our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $388,000.00 - $558,000.00.

Benefits

• Health Plans
• Mental Health support
• a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match
• Stock Option Program
• Disability Programs
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Family-forming benefits
• Life and Serious Injury Benefits
• paid leave of absence programs
• Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off.
• Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off.

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