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# Distributed Systems Engineer 6 - Ads Policies

- **Company:** Netflix, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Distributed Systems, Design of User Interfaces, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Automation of Marketing, Metadata, Systems Integration, TypeScript, Management of Software Versions, Api Design
- **Published:** November 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/distributed-systems-engineer-6-ads-policies-new-york-ny--006b1601-b49c-48b5-b057-3416b761034b

## About the Role

Distributed Computing, Systems Engineering, Storytelling, Leading Edge Technology, Metadata, Content Delivery/Distribution, Advertising, Ecosystems, System Integration (SI), Regulations, * Deep experience in AdTech in general, experience in Ads Policy or Trust and Safety is a bonus.

 * A track record of identifying and solving highly complex, ambiguous problems.
 * Deep experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, ideally on the JVM or a comparable server-side platform.
 * Demonstrated ability to set longer-term technical strategy and drive architectural decisions across multiple systems or teams.
 * Strong knowledge of API design, data modeling, schema evolution, versioning, backward compatibility, and correctness-sensitive evaluation.
 * Understanding of Typescript, UX and UI design principles.
 * Ability to communicate complex technical issues and business consequences clearly to engineering, product, policy, operations, and leadership audiences.
 * A record of influencing cross-team roadmaps, resolving conflict, and building durable alignment without relying on formal authority.
 * Evidence of mentoring and growing engineers, increasing teammates' effectiveness, and scaling impact through others.
 * Operational excellence, including performance analysis, testing, observability, incident response, and ownership of business-critical production systems.

## Nice to Haves

 * Experience with rules engines, policy or entitlement systems, authorization, risk platforms, or expression evaluation.
 * Experience with advertising technology, campaign management, ad serving, publisher policy, or creative moderation.
 * Programmatic advertisement experience
 * Experience with trust and safety, regulatory compliance, or other domains where incorrect decisions have material consequences.
 * Experience building high-volume batch evaluation, real-time low-latency decision systems, or multi-tenant platforms.
 * Familiarity with connected TV, dynamic ad insertion for Live events, or programmatic advertising.
 * Experience contributing to industry standards or technical working groups such as VAST or OpenRTB.

## Description

As a Staff Distributed Systems Engineer on Ads Policy Infrastructure, you will provide hands-on technical leadership for the systems that define, govern, evaluate, and explain advertising policy across Netflix's ads ecosystem. You will shape the longer-term architecture of the policy platform and lead highly ambiguous initiatives whose success depends on alignment across Policy, Product, Operations, and multiple engineering teams.

This is an individual-contributor role with impact beyond direct implementation. You will establish technical direction, make durable cross-system decisions, influence partner roadmaps, and increase the effectiveness of other engineers while continuing to deliver code, designs, prototypes, and production systems.

## What You'll Do

 * Work with Engineering Leadership to set the longer-term technical strategy and architecture for shared policy models, lifecycle and governance services, evaluation paths, and consumer integration contracts.
 * Establish reliability, scalability, security, and operational standards for systems used across campaign planning, creative review, serving, Live workflows, forecasting, and reporting.
 * Identify technical gaps and opportunities across teams, communicate their business impact, and influence roadmaps toward solutions that optimize for Netflix rather than a single local system.
 * Remain hands-on by producing code, designs, prototypes, strategies, and architecture that simplify systems and accelerate delivery.