Netflix is seeking a Performance Systems Engineer for its Ad Server Platform, focusing on optimizing and maintaining the ad-serving infrastructure. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in performance engineering and distributed systems, along with a strong background in backend services, particularly in advertising technology
Job Summary
Netflix is building an in-house world-class ad tech ecosystem to support its new ad-supported tier and serve deeply engaged audiences globally.
The role focuses on optimizing the ad serving runtime for latency, throughput, and resource efficiency across the full request lifecycle including targeting and policy enforcement.
Candidates will own performance SLOs, drive platform reliability through efficiency lens, and partner with teams to adopt runtime improvements and tune GC strategies.
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Netflix is seeking a Performance Systems Engineer for its Ad Server Platform, focusing on optimizing and maintaining the ad-serving infrastructure. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in performance engineering and distributed systems, along with a strong background in backend services, particularly in advertising technology.
Salary
Base: $388,000.00 - $619,000.00; Bonus/Equity: Stock options chosen annually; Benefits: Comprehensive health plans, 401(k) match, stock option program, flexible time off
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
7+ years distributed systems experience
JVM internals and GC tuning expertise
Performance profiling with async-profiler
Load testing and squeeze test design
Java or Kotlin runtime optimization
Kafka and Flink stream processing
Ad server and programmatic bidding knowledge
Nice-to-have
CTV and server-side ad insertion experience
Live event ad serving at NFL scale
Multi-region active-active architecture
Chaos engineering and SRE practices
Hardware-aware optimization skills
Automated performance regression detection in CI/CD