Software Engineer 6 – Ads Policies

Netflix

Staff Distributed Systems Engineer at Netflix, providing technical leadership for Ads Policy Infrastructure. Shaping architecture, influencing roadmaps, and delivering cross-system solutions.

Posted 8/1/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $499,000 - $820,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, with a strong focus on API design, data modeling, and operational excellence. Proven ability to influence technical strategy and architecture while mentoring engineers and fostering cross-team collaboration.

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Large-Scale Distributed Systems DesignAPI Design and Data ModelingTechnical Strategy and ArchitectureMentoring and Team DevelopmentOperational Excellence

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Hard Skills

AdTechJVMTypescriptAPI DesignData ModelingSchema EvolutionVersioningBackward CompatibilityPerformance AnalysisIncident Response

Soft Skills

Problem SolvingCommunicationInfluencingConflict ResolutionBuilding Alignment

Tools & Technologies

Creative Review SystemsCampaign Planning ToolsForecasting ToolsReporting SystemsLifecycle Services

Industry Keywords

Ads PolicyTrust and SafetyGovernance ServicesConsumer Integration ContractsOperational Standards

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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 large-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.
Understanding of Typescript, UX and UI design principles.
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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.