Full-Stack Engineer 5 - Decisioning & Optimization

Netflix

New York, New York, United States of America
Base: $320,000.00 - $500,000.00; bonus/equity: not...
On-site
7+ years professional software engineering experience
Proficiency in react, typescript, javascript, node.js
Experience building scalable backend systems in java or kotlin
The team owns systems that power real-time ad decisioning while balancing revenue goals and member experience

Job Summary

  • The team owns systems that power real-time ad decisioning while balancing revenue goals and member experience.
  • Engineers will build an ad decision debugger to trace the full path of ad requests from features to billing.
  • Netflix offers a unique compensation structure where employees choose their split between salary and stock options annually.

Matching Summary

The team owns systems that power real-time ad decisioning while balancing revenue goals and member experience.

Salary

Base: $320,000.00 - $500,000.00; Bonus/Equity: Not specified (employees choose salary vs stock); Benefits: Comprehensive health plans, 401(k) match, stock options, flexible time off

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • 7+ years professional software engineering experience
  • Proficiency in React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js
  • Experience building scalable backend systems in Java or Kotlin
  • Strong background in observability tooling and debugging complex distributed systems
  • Ability to query and visualize large datasets using SQL and streaming data

Nice-to-have

  • Ads domain experience with ad serving or marketplace systems
  • Experience building model serving monitoring tools
  • Familiarity with observability platforms at scale
  • Understanding of auction behavior and pacing anomalies
  • Product mindset empathetic to user needs

Key Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Production system development across UI, BFF, and backend layers

Work Rights

Not specified

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