Data Engineer – Ads

About the role

Netflix’s Ads Data Engineering team builds the data ecosystem that powers decision‑making around ad inventory, forecasting, targeting, serving and pacing. As a Data Engineer you will design, develop, and scale core data products that enable the Ads business to grow.

Key responsibilities

• Architect, strengthen, and expand core Ads data products and pipelines.
• Own critical portions of Netflix’s Ads data platform, from modeling to production delivery.
• Collaborate with analytics engineers, data scientists, and software engineers to create data solutions for analysis, machine‑learning and reporting.
• Develop best practices for governance of sensitive data sets.
• Build strong partnerships across product, engineering and business teams.

Required profile

• Curious, creative and tenacious with strong communication skills.
• Extensive experience working with data at scale and a solid understanding of privacy considerations.
• High tolerance for ambiguity and fast‑changing environments.
• Passionate about data quality and delivering impactful data products.

Required skills

• Hands‑on experience building batch or streaming pipelines using distributed processing frameworks such as Spark, Flink, Hive or Hadoop.
• Knowledge of data modeling and data architecture across multiple systems.
• Proficiency in software engineering best practices for data warehousing.