About the Role
The Ads Inventory Management & Forecasting team is building distributed systems that are highly efficient and scalable to handle large and growing ads data and intense computation. The team also needs to work closely with the science team to productionize ML models and optimization algorithms. This new team is faced with enormous ambitions of building highly performant advertising systems and delivering high impact to our business by monetizing our incredible slate of content.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain E2E inventory forecasting, underwriting, and simulation systems.
- Build distributed systems that are highly efficient and scalable.
- Productionize ML models and optimization algorithms.
- Drive large and complex projects by working with cross-functional teams.
Requirements
- Professional experience in building sophisticated ads forecasting systems which involves ML models and high performance ad server simulation that accounts for constraints like frequency capping, targeting, publisher policy, and other business parameters.
- Proven experience in handling data at extremely large volumes with big data tools like Spark.
- Experience building high throughput low latency distributed systems that utilized big data.
- General understanding of the advertising marketplace and landscape, with a focus on ad serving flow.
- Developed many cloud based applications and comfortable with modern programming languages (preferably object oriented).
- Experience in working with cross-functional teams to drive large and complex projects.
Skills
- ML models
- High performance ad server simulation
- Spark
- Big data tools
- Distributed systems
- Cloud based applications
- Modern programming languages
- Object oriented programming
- Lucene index
- Productionizing ML models
- Ads industry technology standards (e.g VAST, OpenRTB)
- Legal compliance and ads regulations
- Connected TV (CTV) space
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Professional experience
Salary/Compensations
- $388,000.00 - $558,000.00
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 full-time salaried employees
About the Company
- Netflix's mission is to entertain the world.
- We launched a new ad-supported tier in November 2022 to offer members more choice in how they consume their content.
- The Ads Platform Engineering teams build advertising systems and integrations that power the delivery of ads using our world-class content delivery ecosystem.
- We use a unique mix of client and server side ad insertions, state of the art content delivery system, ad encoding recipes, content understanding and metadata to power our ads.
- We deliver ads thoughtfully of our member’s viewing experience and drive great outcomes for advertisers.
- We ensure advertiser brand safety during serving.
- Netflix provides comprehensive benefits.
- Netflix has a unique culture and environment.
- Inclusion is a Netflix value.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams.
- We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully.
- 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.
