Netflix Data Engineer jobs
Senior-only, all-cash $380K–$610K data engineer roles, with ads data in focus.
The Data Engineer (L5) role
Netflix data engineers build batch and real-time pipelines and data models that power analytics, product features and ML across Growth, Finance, Content and Studio. 2026 hiring concentrates on Ads data engineering (inventory, targeting, identity, measurement) plus analytics engineers embedded with data science. It is a senior-heavy, high-autonomy org with no junior ladder for data engineers.
Data engineering is a dedicated ‘Data Engineer’ title inside the Data & Insights org (Data Science and Engineering plus Consumer Insights) on Netflix’s L3–L8 engineering ladder, with 43 DE salary submissions on levels.fyi; Netflix-originated platforms include Apache Iceberg and the Maestro workflow orchestrator.
Netflix data engineer salary
Base: the posted US range on the live ‘Data Engineer (L5)’ req (also the L5 Ads req), read Oct 10, 2026; Netflix pays all-cash with no bonus, so base equals total, and the L6 Ads reqs post $510,000–$820,000. All-in: levels.fyi Netflix Data Engineer, US, 25th–75th percentile (n=14 in the percentile window, 43 submissions overall; L5 average $571k, L4 average $347k), Oct 2026 — levels.fyi counts no stock for Netflix.
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