The role is for a senior technical leader on the Ad Eventing team at Netflix, responsible for setting the technical direction and architectural standards for event processing at scale. This team focuses on building a high-throughput, low-latency pipeline that processes billions of ad events daily. The position requires a blend of hands-on coding and strategic influence across the organization. The ideal candidate will drive operational excellence and modularization while collaborating closely with various teams.

• 10+ years of experience building distributed systems and backend services at large scale.
• 3+ years of experience in the ads domain.
• Deep experience with high-throughput event ingestion and stream processing at scale, such as Kafka, Flink, or Spark Streaming.
• Experience designing event schemas and data contracts for multiple downstream consumers.
• Strong understanding of exactly-once and at-least-once delivery semantics and idempotency patterns.
• Track record of technical leadership across multiple teams, influencing architectural direction.

• Own the technical direction of the Ad Eventing team, including architecture reviews and capacity planning.
• Architect and evolve the end-to-end ad event pipeline under strict latency and throughput constraints.
• Scale event ingestion infrastructure to handle billions of events per day with high availability.
• Design and implement robust deduplication and validation systems to ensure event accuracy.
• Build and operate stream processing pipelines that power real-time signals for reporting.
• Define and maintain authoritative event schemas and data contracts for billing and reporting.
• Partner closely with Ad Serving, Pacing, Reporting, and Science teams to meet data accuracy requirements.
• Drive operational excellence across the eventing stack, focusing on reliability and observability.

• Employees at Netflix are often offered flexible, people-first benefits—unlimited time away, generous parental leave, global family-forming support, mental-health programs (mindfulness, free counseling/coaching), and health coverage tailored by country. Financially, Netflix pays at personal top-of-market and lets employees choose their mix of cash vs. fully-vested 10-year stock options, alongside donation and volunteer matching. Convenience perks can include trust-based travel/expense policies, relocation support, and “Work, Not Drive” rideshare flexibility.