Data Engineer Jobs at Netflix with Visa Sponsorship
Data Engineer jobs at Netflix involve building and maintaining the large-scale data infrastructure behind its personalization, content, and analytics systems. The company sponsors a range of work visas for this function, making it a realistic target for international candidates with strong engineering and pipeline-building experience.
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At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. Together, we are writing the next episode - pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom and making the unimaginable a reality. We are a dream team obsessed with the uncomfortable excitement of discovering what happens when you merge creativity, intuition and cutting-edge technology. Come be a part of what’s next.
About the Team
Ads Data Engineering is at the core of building a data ecosystem that powers Netflix's understanding and decision-making about the impact of ads on our business. This team builds rich, connected, and easily accessible data products spanning ad inventory, forecasting, targeting, ad serving, pacing, and more. This role will lead the Ads Signals & Measurement team across three core areas:
- Conversion & Attribution: Building the data and attribution capabilities that connect advertising exposure to outcomes, powering conversion measurement and ML-based optimization.
- Measurement Data Foundations: Building the data foundations that power our first-party measurement solutions across the full funnel, including incrementality, lift, experimentation, and third-party measurement studies.
- Audience Onboarding & Identity: Enabling audience onboarding, identity resolution, and rich signal generation to power audience and targeting solutions.
Horizontally, the team connects these areas through a data flywheel where signals, identity, measurement, attribution, and optimization continuously reinforce one another. This role sits at the intersection of these domains, ensuring they come together as a cohesive data ecosystem that powers both measurement and performance optimization. We're looking for a Staff Data Engineer to help set the technical bar and lead teams across these domains.
Who are you?
- A seasoned technologist with 12+ years building data-foundation, backend, or data engineering systems, someone other engineers naturally look to for direction.
- You've spent real time in advertising or ad-tech data, specifically in domains like Ads identity graph, measurement, targeting, and while your depth may run deepest in one domain, you're comfortable moving across several.
- You've built trust and driven technical direction across organizational lines, not just within your own team, and you've done it in more than one company or role.
- You take data privacy and governance seriously, not as a checkbox, but as something you've actually built for.
- You're a clear, thoughtful communicator who can translate technical nuance for engineers and business context for leaders, often in the same conversation.
- You're comfortable with ambiguity, and just as comfortable helping a room of smart, opinionated engineers land on a shared answer.
- You genuinely enjoy helping other engineers grow, and see that as just as core to the job as your own technical output.
What will you do?
- Set technical direction and design coherence across the various orgs, connecting the dots between domains rather than optimizing just one.
- Weigh in on and help resolve cross-domain design decisions, helping teams converge on approaches that scale across the org, not just within a single team.
- Mentor and coach data engineers, helping them grow technically and adopt AI and emerging tools and technologies.
- Build strong partnerships with senior engineers on our data platform and D&I teams, contributing to and shaping horizontal and platform-wide efforts.
What (ideally) do you know?
- Modern data stacks end-to-end: ingestion, processing, storage, and serving.
- Ad-tech systems and data flows, ideally with direct exposure to at least 2 domains across measurement, attribution, identity, audience, targeting.
- Large-scale distributed data systems such as Spark, Kafka, or columnar stores.
- The latest in AI and agentic technologies as they apply to data engineering.
- A graduate degree in Computer Science with a data focus is a plus, as is experience formally mentoring engineers on their technical growth.
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 $510,000.00 - $820,000.00. This compensation range will vary based on location.
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 Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more details about our Benefits here.
Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.
Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.
We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.
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Align your portfolio with Netflix's data stack
Netflix's Data Engineering roles emphasize Spark, Flink, Iceberg, and internal tools like Metacat. Tailor your GitHub projects and resume to reflect experience with distributed systems and large-scale batch or streaming pipelines before you apply.
Target open roles by data domain
Netflix structures Data Engineering across domains like Content, Ads, and Studio. Applying to the domain closest to your previous industry experience signals fit faster than applying broadly and strengthens your H-1B specialty occupation case with a tighter degree-to-role alignment.
Prepare your degree equivalency documentation early
Netflix sponsors H-1B for Data Engineers, which requires a qualifying bachelor's degree in a specialty field. If your degree is from outside the U.S., get a credential evaluation from NACES-member evaluators before your offer stage to avoid delays in USCIS filing.
Understand Netflix's cap-exempt filing window
If you're transferring from another H-1B employer to Netflix, USCIS allows cap-exempt portability after your I-140 is approved or after 365 days of post-approval employment. Confirm which situation applies to you when negotiating your start date with the recruiter.
Search verified sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate
Filter Data Engineer openings by visa type on Migrate Mate to confirm Netflix is actively hiring for your specific status, whether that's H-1B, E-3, TN, or OPT. This saves time targeting roles where sponsorship is confirmed rather than assumed.
Clarify OPT and CPT timelines with your recruiter
If you're on F-1 OPT, Netflix typically expects you to be H-1B eligible in the next lottery cycle. Confirm your OPT expiration date and any STEM extension eligibility before your offer letter is issued so the recruiter can loop in immigration counsel on timing.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Netflix sponsor H-1B visas for Data Engineers?
Yes, Netflix sponsors H-1B visas for Data Engineer roles. The H-1B requires your position to qualify as a specialty occupation, which Data Engineering typically satisfies given its degree requirements in computer science or a related field. Your employer files the petition with USCIS, and approval timelines depend on whether premium processing is used.
How do I apply for Data Engineer jobs at Netflix?
Apply directly through Netflix's careers page or browse open Data Engineer roles filtered by visa type on Migrate Mate. Netflix's interview process typically includes a recruiter screen, technical assessments focused on SQL and data modeling, and system design rounds specific to large-scale pipeline architecture. Tailoring your experience to Netflix's known data platform priorities improves your chances of progressing.
Which visa types does Netflix commonly sponsor for Data Engineers?
Netflix sponsors H-1B, E-3 visa (for Australian citizens), TN visa (for Canadian and Mexican nationals), F-1 OPT and CPT, J-1 visa, and Green Card pathways including EB-2 and EB-3 for Data Engineers. The right visa depends on your citizenship and current status. E-3 visa and TN visa are often faster to obtain than H-1B since they bypass the annual lottery.
What qualifications does Netflix expect for Data Engineer roles?
Netflix typically looks for strong experience with distributed data systems, proficiency in languages like Python, Java, or Scala, and hands-on work with tools such as Apache Spark or Flink. A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a quantitative field is expected. Experience with streaming data architectures or open table formats like Apache Iceberg is a notable differentiator.
How do I time my application if I'm on F-1 OPT and need H-1B sponsorship?
The H-1B lottery opens in March for an October 1 start date, so you need your offer accepted and your employer registered with USCIS before the lottery window. If you're on STEM OPT, you may have up to 36 months of work authorization to bridge the gap if you miss a lottery cycle. Coordinate your application timeline with Netflix's recruiting team and confirm their immigration counsel is looped in before your offer is finalized.