[Hiring] Staff Data Engineer @Netflix

Role Description

We're looking for a Staff Data Engineer to help set the technical bar for the entire Ads Data Engineering organization. This isn't a role focused on a single team or domain; it's about shaping how all of our ad data systems fit together, helping different teams land on coherent, scalable approaches, and serving as a thought partner to our engineering leaders as the business and data landscape continue to evolve.

Qualifications

• A seasoned technologist with 15+ years building data-foundation, backend, or data engineering systems.
• Experience in advertising or ad-tech data, comfortable moving across several domains.
• Proven track record of building trust and driving technical direction across organizational lines.
• Experience with major platform migrations or data products’ journey from 0 to 1 and 1 to 100.
• Ability to approach and design data as a product for the business with focus on users, quality, and measurable impact.
• Strong understanding of data privacy and governance.
• Clear, thoughtful communicator who can translate technical nuance for engineers and business context for leaders.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and helping teams land on shared answers.
• Passionate about mentoring and helping other engineers grow.

Requirements

• Set technical direction and design coherence across the entire Ads Data Engineering org.
• Weigh in on and help resolve cross-domain design decisions.
• Partner closely with the Ads DE director and DE managers as a senior technical voice.
• Mentor and coach data engineers across the org.
• Build strong partnerships with senior engineers on our data platform and D&I teams.
• Help define what AI-native data engineering looks like for Ads DE.
• Be the primary technical voice in partnerships with Ads Platform Engineering, Ads Data Science, and Product.

Benefits

• Comprehensive 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 paid time off.
• Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off.