Technical Program Manager (L5) - Security and Privacy

About Netflix

Netflix is the world's leading streaming entertainment service with over 260 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series documentaries and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can watch as much as they want anytime anywhere on any Internet-connected screen. Members can play pause and resume watching all without commercials or commitments.

The Team

The Security and Privacy Technical Program Management team is a force multiplier for the security organization; we partner closely with engineering and product teams across Netflix to deliver impactful and scalable security initiatives. We collaborate with leaders inside and outside the organization to align on strategic goals and vision to further the security roadmaps for our partnering teams in a business-driven way. We then work with the right stakeholders to establish and drive initiatives that move the needle on this.

The Opportunity

You will drive large at-scale security initiatives across multiple products and central engineering orgs with stakeholders ranging from senior leadership product managers engineering managers and developers. It is a great opportunity to help mature the security posture in the most rapidly growing parts of our business and gain intimate knowledge of Netflix’s products and services. These are highly visible and cross-functional efforts that require technical thought leadership across Netflix’s engineering and product organizations.

We are leaning into the “T” (Technical) for this role. By technical we mean that the ideal candidate has a strong understanding of the overall security domain and the ability to gain a technical understanding of programs across their lifecycle. TPMs must be skilled at both strategy and execution as well as have depth in their technical domain.

As we expand from SVOD into Live events onboard you will lead the Live security and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) prevention programs that are business critical and have a unique set of challenges to navigate through. Both programs are closely related and focus around preserving the high availability of our streaming service. You will be responsible for crafting and executing the overall program. This includes translating the vision into a program strategy leading critical initiatives building the technical execution plan stakeholder management and overseeing the development of quarterly roadmaps.

You will be successful in the role if…

• You are passionate about leading by influence and advocating for change.

• You have a demonstrated ability to establish a vision and to execute on it.

• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills including clear articulation of business impact and technical constraints tailored to the audience.

• You are able to triage multiple initiatives to make a judgment to tackle the right problems at the right time.

• You have an ability to identify gaps in solutions debate technical approaches and weigh-in on product vs technology tradeoffs.

• You have familiarity with consumer product security principles and best practices and have developed and driven security initiatives such as DDoS and fraud prevention to name a few.

A few reasons why we love this work and think you will too:

• You will have the opportunity to facilitate impactful security work for the Netflix business and engineering ecosystem.

• You will be working with an industry leading security team with many opportunities to improve existing projects and identify new ones.

• You will have the opportunity to research new ideas and share them across the community.

• You enjoy learning and working closely with domain experts in diverse areas such as microservices architecture data science and engineering content delivery networks and a production studio.

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 .

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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.