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Software Engineer 5 - Ads Inventory Management & Forecasting
full-timeLos Gatos

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Los Gatos

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full-time

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About this role

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

We launched a new ad-supported tier in November 2022 to offer our members more choice in how they consume their content. Our new tier allows us to attract new members at a lower price point, while also creating a compelling path for advertisers to reach audiences that are deeply engaged.

Our Team

The Ads Platform Engineering teams build advertising systems and integrations that powers the delivery of ads using our world class content delivery ecosystem. We use a number of Netflix investments and innovations to power our ads - unique mix of client and server side ad insertions, state of the art content delivery system, ad encoding recipes, content understanding and metadata etc. We deliver ads in a manner that’s thoughtful of our member’s viewing experience and drive great outcomes for advertisers. We also ensure that advertiser brand safety is ensured during serving, members only see the most appropriate ads for them.

Ads Inventory Management & Forecasting team builds state-of-art realtime inventory forecasting solution leveraging ML models and high performance ad server simulations. The team also builds systems that enable publisher inventory management solutions, which supports various monetization strategies such as dynamic pricing, rate card management, product packaging, inventory split and yield optimization.

Our team is new and yet faced with the enormous ambitions of building highly performant advertising systems and delivering high impact to our business by monetizing our incredible slate of content. As one of the newest entrants in the Connected TV advertising space that’s rapidly growing, we seek to build unique value propositions that help us differentiate from the competition and become a market leader in record time.

We are looking for highly motivated engineers working in the advertising space who are excited to join us on this journey.

Skills & experience we’re seeking:

  • 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, and building high throughput low latency distributed systems that utilized the 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.

Nice to haves:

  • Good understanding of Lucene index and had experience building and querying Lucene index with large volume of data.

  • Experience in productionizing ML models and deploying models at scale.

  • Contributed to an ads industry technology standard (e.g  VAST, OpenRTB) or worked on an industry consortium effort, working group etc.

  • Familiarity with legal compliance and changing landscape of ads regulations around the world.

  • Experience working in the CTV space and knowledge of its unique constraints

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

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.

Other facts

Tech stack
Ads Forecasting Systems,ML Models,Ad Server Simulation,Big Data Tools,Spark,Distributed Systems,Cloud Based Applications,Object Oriented Programming,Cross-Functional Collaboration,Lucene Index,Productionizing ML Models,Ads Industry Standards,Legal Compliance,CTV Space Knowledge

About Netflix

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

Team size: 10,001+ employees
LinkedIn: Visit
Industry: Entertainment Providers
Founding Year: 1997

What you'll do

  • The Ads Inventory Management & Forecasting team builds real-time inventory forecasting solutions and systems for publisher inventory management. The team focuses on monetization strategies such as dynamic pricing and yield optimization.

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The Software Engineer 5 - Ads Inventory Management & Forecasting position at Netflix is based in Los Gatos, California, United States. Contact the company through Clera for specific work arrangement details.

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