Software Engineer - Forecasting & Simulation

At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world

We are a dream team obsessed with discovering what happens when you merge creativity, intuition and cutting‑edge technology. Come be a part of what’s next.

We launched a new ad‑supported tier in November 2022 to offer members more choice. The new tier attracts members at a lower price point and creates a compelling path for advertisers to reach deeply engaged audiences.

The Ads Platform Engineering teams build advertising systems and integrations that power the delivery of ads using Netflix’s world‑class content delivery ecosystem. We use Netflix investments and innovations to power our ads – a unique mix of client and server‑side ad insertions, state‑of‑the‑art content delivery, ad encoding recipes, content understanding and metadata. We deliver ads in a manner that’s thoughtful of our members’ viewing experience and drive great outcomes for advertisers.

We also ensure brand safety and that members only see the most appropriate ads for them.

The Ads Inventory Management & Forecasting team develops and maintains end‑to‑end inventory forecasting, underwriting and simulation systems. Forecasting enables near‑real‑time, data‑driven decisioning for advertisers, agencies, DSPs and Netflix stakeholders. Simulation supports experimentation, analytics, scenario planning, pricing and packaging use cases from Sales, Account, Pricing and Science teams. The team builds distributed systems that are highly efficient and scalable to handle large and growing ads data and intense computation.

The team works closely with the science team to product ionize machine‑learning models and optimization algorithms.

We are new but face enormous ambitions of building highly performant advertising and delivering high impact to our business by monetizing our incredible slate of content. As one of the newest entrants in the Connected TV advertising space that’s rapidly growing, we seek to build unique value propositions that help us differentiate from the competition and become a market leader in record time.

We are looking for highly motivated engineers working in the advertising space who are excited to join us on this journey.

• Professional experience in building sophisticated ads forecasting systems which involves ML models and high‑performance ad server simulation that accounts for constraints like frequency capping, targeting, publisher policy and other business parameters.
• Proven experience in handling data at extremely large volumes with big data tools like Spark, and building high‑throughput, low‑latency distributed systems that utilize big data.
• General understanding of the advertising marketplace and landscape, with a focus on ad serving flow.
• Developed many cloud‑based applications and comfortable with modern programming languages (preferably object‑oriented).
• Experience in working with cross‑functional teams to drive large and complex projects.

• Good understanding of Lucene index and had experience building and querying Lucene index with large volume of data.
• Experience in product ionizing ML models and deploying models at scale.
• Contributed to an ads industry technology standard (e.g. VAST, OpenRTB) or worked on an industry consortium effort, working group etc.
• Familiarity with legal compliance and the changing landscape of ad regulations around the world.
• Experience working in the CTV space and knowledge of its unique constraints.

Generally, our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills and experience to determine your compensation in the market range.

The range for this role is $ – $.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family‑forming benefits, and Life and Serious…