Security Engineer (L5) - Application and Infrastructure Security

Netflix is the world's leading streaming entertainment service with 250 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series documentaries feature films and mobile games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Employees have tremendous freedom in their work along with the corresponding responsibility to do the right thing for Netflix. Instead of controlling engineers with process and security gates we enable them to build secure systems and provide them with adequate security context to make the right decisions for Netflix.

The Security Engineering organization exists to ensure that Netflix can appropriately address top enterprise security risks while maintaining overall business agility velocity and scale.

The Application and Infrastructure Security (AIS) team within Security Engineering aims to manage risk in our engineering ecosystem through strategic security initiatives in high-risk or high-leverage areas. We conduct risk discovery security strategy development and execution identification and execution of high impact security initiatives across Netflix applications and infrastructure.

We are looking for a Security Engineer to join the team to work closely with our infrastructure platform and network engineering teams to help evolve our security strategy in these areas to meet dynamic business demands. You will partner closely with engineering teams and other security functions to improve security at Netflix.

Desired Background

We are looking for a thoughtful and unusually responsible security professional — someone who’s self-motivated self-aware and self-disciplined — to help advance the aforementioned mission. We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single one of the listed criteria. We value the unique perspectives skills and experiences each candidate brings with them.

Execution Collaboration Influence and Decision Making:

• Experience with an engineering-focused approach to infrastructure platform and application security.

• Demonstrated skill and judgment in prioritizing influencing and driving remediation and risk reduction strategies at scale through complex organizations.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills and an ability to articulate security objectives to a variety of audiences.

• Can build understanding and develop sound security strategies amidst ambiguity.

• Comfortable both driving broad initiatives and digging deep in technical domains.

Security Domain Expertise:

• Security architecture threat modeling secure design.

• Experience conducting security assessments and developing then driving remediation.

• Platform security e.g. securing critical control planes interconnected services API security and secure-by-default practices.

• Operating systems security e.g. hardening patch and vulnerability management access management monitoring.

• Network security strategy e.g. zero trust architecture secure network design and management.

You can learn more about life at Netflix by watching our security talks or exploring our open-source work .

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 $100000 - $720000.

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 detail about our Benefits here .

Netflix is a unique culture and environment.  Learn more here .

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity recognizing that diversity of thought and background 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.