Netflix · 10 hours ago
Data Engineer (L5) - Ads
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$170K/yr - $720K/yrNetflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships. They are seeking a Data Engineer to architect and expand their Ads data products, collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure high-quality data delivery and governance.
Digital EntertainmentMedia and EntertainmentTVVideo Streaming
Responsibilities
Architect, strengthen, and expand the core data products that scale our Ads business
Fully own critical portions of Netflix' Ads data products
Collaborate with stakeholders to understand needs, model tables using software engineering and data warehouse best practices, and develop large scale data processing solutions to ensure the timely delivery of high quality data
Partner with Analytics Engineers, Data Scientists, and Software Engineers to create data products that will serve analysis, ML and reporting needs intuitively
Develop best practices for governance of data sets with sensitive information
Build strong and collaborative partnerships with data scientists, analytics engineers, and Machine Learning practitioners
Qualification
Required
You have an extensive background and strong technical expertise working with data at scale
Experience with advertising data (preferred)
Understand how to build for privacy and business impact
High tolerance for ambiguity and fast-changing context
Hands-on experience building batch or streaming production data pipelines, ideally using one or more distributed processing frameworks such as Spark, Flink or Hive/Hadoop
Knowledge in data modeling and establishing data architecture across multiple systems
Thrive in a fast paced environment
Create code that is understandable, simple, and clean, and take pride in its beauty
Love freedom and hate being micromanaged
Passionate about data quality and delivering effective data to impact the business
Architect, strengthen, and expand the core data products that scale our Ads business
Fully own critical portions of Netflix' Ads data products
Collaborate with stakeholders to understand needs, model tables using software engineering and data warehouse best practices
Develop large scale data processing solutions to ensure the timely delivery of high quality data
Partner with Analytics Engineers, Data Scientists, and Software Engineers to create data products that will serve analysis, ML and reporting needs intuitively
Develop best practices for governance of data sets with sensitive information
Build strong and collaborative partnerships with data scientists, analytics engineers, and Machine Learning practitioners
Preferred
Domains related to advertising, data privacy, GDPR
Data warehousing, data modeling, and data transformation for both batch and streaming
Hands on command programming languages such as python, scala or java as well data exploration using sql
Expert at building performant data pipelines and optimizing existing workflows for new features
Big Data tech - Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Stream processing, Hive, Presto, etc
Experience with sourcing and modeling data from application APIs
Team based software development tools and best practices
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
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.
Company
Netflix
Netflix is an online streaming platform that enables users to watch TV shows and movies.
Founded in 1997
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$63.91BKey Investors
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2025-12-05Post Ipo Debt· $59B
2024-08-01Post Ipo Debt· $1.8B
2018-05-05Post Ipo Debt· $2.67M
Leadership Team
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Co-CEO
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Co-CEO
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