# Software Engineer 6 - Ad Serving Platform 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: Los Gatos
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-29
- Apply: https://netflix.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Netflix/job/Los-Gatos/Software-Engineer-6---Ads-Supply_JR35942
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/netflix-software-engineer-6-ad-serving-platform/

## About the role

Technical Direction: Help drive the overall technical direction of the ad-serving platform. Partner across engineering teams to ensure the ecosystem meets SLAs, SLOs, and uptime requirements. Low-Latency Distributed Platform: Architect a concurrent platform optimized for high-throughput systems while monitoring, diagnosing, and mitigating tail latencies across core execution paths.

## What they're looking for

- Distributed Systems Experience: 10+ years of experience building distributed systems, core backend infrastructure, or high-throughput platforms
- Low-Latency Systems Engineering : Deep expertise writing clean, highly optimized code in systems languages (e.g., Java, Go, C++, or Rust) with a proven track record of handling high-transaction volumes
- C oncurrency & Algorithmic Design : Practical experience with multi-threaded systems design, concurrent programming, and algorithmic design for highly concurrent workloads (including lock-free data structures or lock contention mitigation)
- Networking & I/O Optimization: Understanding of distributed system fundamentals, specifically managing I/O-bound and CPU-bound workloads, network protocols, and data partitioning strategies
- Performance Measurement & Telemetry: Experience using profiling and diagnostic tools to measure system performance, analyze tail latencies, identify execution hotspots, and build telemetry or monitoring hooks
- Architecture & Collaboration: Ability to translate complex algorithmic requirements (such as business logic or data science models) into extensible platform components that support multiple teams