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About the role
Own the technical direction of the Ad Eventing team: architecture reviews, incident leadership, capacity planning, and scaling Architect and evolve the end-to-end ad event pipeline — from client beacon receipt through validation, deduplication, enrichment, and downstream fan-out — under strict latency and throughput constraints Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years building distributed systems and backend services at large scale, 3+ years in the ads domain
- Deep experience with high-throughput event ingestion and stream processing at scale — Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, or equivalent
- Built and operated event deduplication, validation, and attribution systems in an ads or similarly high-stakes data environment
- Strong understanding of exactly-once and at-least-once delivery semantics , idempotency patterns, and the tradeoffs between them
- Experience designing event schemas and data contracts that serve multiple downstream consumers with different latency and consistency requirements
- Familiarity with ad measurement concepts : impression tracking, viewability, click attribution, completion rates, and IAB standards
More about this role
At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. Together, we are writing the next episode - pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom and making the unimaginable a reality. We are a dream team obsessed with the uncomfortable excitement of discovering what happens when you merge creativity, intuition and cutting-edge technology. Come be a part of what’s next.
We launched our ad-supported tier in November 2022 and are building a world-class, in-house ad tech ecosystem. Ad Eventing is the backbone of that ecosystem — the high-throughput, low-latency pipeline that captures, validates, deduplicates, and processes every ad impression, click, and completion event at Netflix scale. The accuracy and reliability of this data directly powers billing, reporting, pacing, and optimization across the entire ads platform.
The Ad Eventing team sits within the Ad Serving & Decisioning org at Netflix Ads. We own the systems that ingest and process billions of ad events per day — from client-side beacons fired during playback to server-side signals from our ad server. Our work spans real-time event ingestion, deduplication and validation, stream processing pipelines, and the...
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