Distributed Systems Engineer 6 - Ad Eventing

Netflix
United States
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 499,000 - 900,000 annuallyFunction: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)Experience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Cross-functional collaboration","Operational excellence","Architecture direction"]

Own the technical direction of the Ad Eventing team, architecting and evolving an end-to-end, high-throughput ad event pipeline from client beacons through validation, deduplication, enrichment, and downstream fan-out. Scale event ingestion to billions of events/day with exactly-once semantics and sub-second SLAs, build stream-processing pipelines, and define authoritative event schemas and reliability/observability practices that power billing, reporting, pacing, and ML.

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Netflix
Netflix
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Distributed Systems Engineer 6 - Ad Eventing

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Job Summary

Own the technical direction of the Ad Eventing team, architecting and evolving an end-to-end, high-throughput ad event pipeline from client beacons through validation, deduplication, enrichment, and downstream fan-out. Scale event ingestion to billions of events/day with exactly-once semantics and sub-second SLAs, build stream-processing pipelines, and define authoritative event schemas and reliability/observability practices that power billing, reporting, pacing, and ML.
Location: United States
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the technical direction of the Ad Eventing team, including architecture reviews, incident leadership, capacity planning, and scaling.
  • •Architect and evolve the end-to-end ad event pipeline from client beacon receipt through validation, deduplication, enrichment, and downstream fan-out under strict latency/throughput constraints.
  • •Scale event ingestion infrastructure to handle billions of events per day with high availability, exactly-once semantics, and sub-second processing SLAs.
  • •Design and implement robust deduplication and validation systems to ensure event accuracy across retries, network failures, and client-side inconsistencies.
  • •Build and operate stream processing pipelines, define authoritative event schemas/data contracts, and partner with Ad Serving, Pacing, Reporting, and Science teams to meet consumer accuracy, latency, and completeness requirements.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 499,000 - 900,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health Insurance401kEquityDisabilityPaid LeaveLife Insurance

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years building distributed systems and backend services at large scale, with 3+ years in the ads domain.
  • •Deep experience with high-throughput event ingestion and stream processing (Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, or equivalent).
  • •Experience building and operating event deduplication, validation, and attribution systems in high-stakes data environments.
  • •Strong understanding of exactly-once and at-least-once delivery semantics, idempotency patterns, and relevant tradeoffs.
  • •Experience designing event schemas and data contracts for multiple downstream consumers with different latency and consistency requirements.
Experience:10+ yearsAdsStream processingDistributed systems
Skills:Technical leadershipCross-functional collaborationOperational excellenceArchitecture direction
Tech Stack:KafkaFlinkSpark Streaming

Company Brief

Netflix
Global subscription streaming service that produces and distributes movies, TV series, and games across multiple devices, operating worldwide with extensive original content and localized offerings.
Industry: Streaming Platforms
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Los Gatos, United States
Founded: 1997
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