Software Engineer 4 - Ads Policy Infrastructure
About The Position
Netflix is hiring a Software Engineer for its Ads Policy Infrastructure team. The team builds platform components to manage Netflix advertising policies and ensure they are enforced across the ads ecosystem, including creative review, campaign setup, targeting, serving, Live, and reporting. Policies govern which ads can run, where they can appear, and under what conditions, supporting compliance with local regulations and Netflix standards. In this hands-on role, you will help build systems that define, govern, evaluate, and explain advertising policy. You will own components end to end, from policy services and APIs to parts of the Ad Connect authoring experience, with support from senior engineers as you develop toward full-stack ownership. You will contribute to design discussions, deliver production code, and work with partners in Policy, Product, Operations, and consumer engineering teams.
Requirements
- Production software engineering experience building services or user-facing applications.
- Solid fundamentals in API design, data modeling, and schema evolution, including versioning and backward compatibility.
- Comfort working with ambiguity and making progress without a predetermined solution as requirements and boundaries evolve.
- An operational mindset, including testing, monitoring, tracing, and ownership of shipped services.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, including explaining technical trade-offs to engineering, product, and operations partners.
- Ownership and drive to follow a feature from design through deployment, operations, and improvement.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with the JVM or with React and TypeScript.
- Demonstrated desire to grow across the stack.
Responsibilities
- Build and operate JVM services and APIs, including GraphQL and gRPC interfaces, to compile authored policy into execution objects and serve policy decisions to consumer systems.
- Build parts of the Ad Connect Policy module using React and TypeScript so policy authors can create, inspect, and safely change rules, exceptions, and overrides.
- Contribute to migration of line-item and Live Manifest policy rules, using shadow evaluation, parity reporting, and rollback criteria to maintain correct enforcement.
- Improve observability and operability through reason codes, decision traces, blocked-demand metrics, tests, dashboards, and alerts.
- Participate in on-call for services owned by the team.
- Contribute to design discussions and deliver production code.
- Own features from design through deployment, operations, and improvement, in collaboration with Policy, Product, Operations, and consumer engineering partners.
Benefits
- Health Plans
- Mental Health support
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match
- Stock Option Program
- Disability Programs
- Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Family-forming benefits
- Life and Serious Injury Benefits
- Paid leave of absence programs
- Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off.
- Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
