# Distributed Systems Engineer 6 - Ad Eventing at Netflix

- Company: Netflix
- What the company does: Watch Netflix movies & TV shows online or stream right to your smart TV, game console, PC, Mac, mobile, tablet and more. Backed by IVP and Redpoint.
- Company website: https://www.netflix.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: 2 Locations
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-07
- Apply by: 2026-11-21
- Apply: https://netflix.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Netflix/job/Los-Gatos/Distributed-Systems-Engineer-6---Ad-Eventing_JR40960?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/netflix-distributed-systems-engineer-6-ad-eventing/

## 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


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