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About the Role

The Live Ad Insertions team is responsible for delivering a seamless, high-reliability ad insertion experience across live and linear streams. This role involves owning the full stack of tools, systems, and operational infrastructure for real-time ad insertion at scale, ensuring no compromise to the member experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers building the real-time infrastructure, tooling, and operational systems for live ad insertion.
• Own the reliability and operational excellence of ad insertion during 24/7 linear streams and high-stakes live events.
• Define the technical roadmap for live ad insertion, including SCTE signal ingestion and validation, ad pod management, manifest stitching, slate handling, and ad decisioning integration.
• Partner with ad operations, broadcast engineering, content delivery, and ad serving teams to ensure seamless signal-to-slot execution.
• Drive hiring, retention, and development of a high-performing engineering team.
• Establish the on-call and incident response culture for live ad systems, setting SLAs and runbooks.
• Contextualize your team's larger advertising strategy and translate business priorities into a technically sound, executable plan.
• Serve as the technical authority in cross-functional discussions on live ad capabilities, representing the team to leadership, partners, and vendors.

Requirements

• 10+ years of total engineering experience with 3+ years managing software engineering teams in a live media, streaming, or ad tech context.
• Strong track record of hiring and developing senior engineers in competitive talent markets.
• Ability to operate in a flat, fast-moving organization, balancing long-term architectural investments against immediate operational needs.
• Effective communicator across both technical and business stakeholders.
• Experience collaborating with content and distribution partners on joint live ad insertion implementations.

Skills

• Live streaming pipelines (ingest protocols like RTMP, SRT, or TS through to CDN)
• Ad insertion architectures (SSAI, CSAI, and SGAI)
• Broadcast signaling (SCTE-35, SCTE-104, SCTE-224)
• Manifest manipulation for ad stitching
• Master control and linear playout systems
• Managing live break constraints (slate/fallback handling, break reconciliation)
• Encoding constraints (codec/bitrate matching, frame rate alignment)
• Ad servers, DSPs, and VAST 4.x/VMAP in live contexts
• Managing strict decisioning latency budgets, timeout handling, tracking event firing, and mitigating decision failures
• Engineering for high-availability, zero-downtime live events
• Building operational tooling for ad ops (real-time fill rate tracking, signal health visualization, break monitoring workflows)

Location

• Remote

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 10+ years of total engineering experience
• 3+ years managing software engineering teams

Salary/Compensations

• $436,000.00 - $791,000.00

Benefits

• Health Plans
• Mental Health support
• 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
• Flexible time off for salaried employees

About the Company

• Netflix's mission is to entertain the world.
• The company is pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom, and making the unimaginable a reality.
• Netflix launched its ad-supported tier in 2022 and reaches over 94 million global monthly active users.

Equal Opportunity

• Netflix is an equal-opportunity employer and celebrates diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams.
• We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.