Distributed Systems Engineer 6 - Ads Policies

- Work with Engineering Leadership to set the longer-term technical strategy and architecture for shared policy models, lifecycle and governance services, evaluation paths, and consumer integration contracts.

- Establish reliability, scalability, security, and operational standards for systems used across campaign planning, creative review, serving, Live workflows, forecasting, and reporting.

- Identify technical gaps and opportunities across teams, communicate their business impact, and influence roadmaps toward solutions that optimize for Netflix rather than a single local system.

- Remain hands-on by producing code , designs, prototypes, strategies, and architecture that simplify systems and accelerate delivery.

- Deep experience in AdTech in general, experience in Ads Policy or Trust and Safety is a bonus.

- A track record of identifying and solving highly complex, ambiguous problems .

- Deep experience designing and operating l arge-scale distributed systems , ideally on the JVM or a comparable server-side platform.

- Demonstrated ability to set longer-term technical strategy and drive architectural decisions across multiple systems or teams.

- Strong knowledge of API design, data modeling, schema evolution, versioning, backward compatibility , and correctness-sensitive evaluation.

- Ability to communicate complex technical issues and business consequences clearly to engineering, product, policy, operations, and leadership audiences.

- A record of influencing cross-team roadmaps, resolving conflict, and building durable alignment without relying on formal authority.

- Evidence of mentoring and growing engineers, increasing teammates' effectiveness, and scaling impact through others.

- Operational excellence, including performance analysis, testing, observability, incident response, and ownership of business-critical production systems.

- Experience with rules engines, policy or entitlement systems, authorization, risk platforms, or expression evaluation.

- Experience with advertising technology, campaign management, ad serving, publisher policy, or creative moderation.

- Experience with trust and safety, regulatory compliance, or other domains where incorrect decisions have material consequences.

- Experience building high-volume batch evaluation, real-time low-latency decision systems, or multi-tenant platforms.

- Familiarity with connected TV, dynamic ad insertion for Live events, or programmatic advertising.

- Experience contributing to industry standards or technical working groups such as VAST or OpenRTB.

Generally, our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range.

The range for this role is $499,000.00 - $900,000.00.