Security Software Engineer (L5), Workforce Security

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

About the Team

Netflix's Workforce Security team protects its employees, endpoints, and vendors by implementing controls for secure user access, SaaS and vendor usage, and endpoint security. The goal is to address security risks while pragmatically allowing business agility, leveraging risk-based approaches over policy mandates, and building strong cross-functional partnerships across the company.

About the role

We seek a talented L5 Security Software Engineer to join our team and help drive the development of scalable technical security controls that enhance business agility and reduce risk at Netflix across various workforce-related security areas.
In this role, exposure to and understanding of workforce security concerns and related mitigations drive scalable controls work. You will help enumerate risks and associated controls and derive technical security requirements. You must be able to clearly identify the problem and why it matters, decompose the solution, and appropriately prioritize/size associated features.

You will uplift and extend internally developed security tools—e.g., GDrive access rightsizing, browser extension security, security posture, and metrics dashboards—by building new features, maintaining existing systems, and integrating with commercially available software where appropriate.  You will be key in evaluating build vs. buy options for deploying the proper workforce security controls for Netflix’s needs. 
You will ensure that the software developed is high-quality and meets functional and non-functional requirements.  You should also be fluent in secure development practices so that security defects are not introduced into software. Collaboration is essential, as you will work closely with partner software development teams to integrate services and tools, and grow our team’s software development capabilities. 

The ideal candidate delivers reliable, product-focused solutions for workforce security, especially in vendor security and security guidance, and is comfortable providing on-call support for security guidance, incident response, and critical outages.

You should have:

• Knowledge of Workforce Security problems and solutions, and exposure to corporate security tooling in the areas of endpoint, identity, data, and vendor security

• Experience building software in Node.js (JavaScript, TypeScript) and Python

• Experience with cloud computing primitives

• Strong full-stack development skills and a history of shaping end-to-end solutions

• A drive to understand “why” first, to inform your approach decisions

• Familiarity with overall system design and architecture, and how to progressively improve software

• Data Engineering skills: Building Extract Transform Load (ETL) pipelines, data query language competency (SQL, Graphy Query Language, other DSL)

• Using measurement and metrics to drive decision-making and outcomes

• High-level understanding of security concerns  

• Competency in turning Threat Models into security requirements

• Working experience with secure coding best practices

You will succeed in this role if you:

• Believe a diverse and inclusive team is a critical aspect of a sustainable and effective work environment

• Value a deeply collaborative team

• Use data to inform your judgment, and to support and communicate your decisions

• Empathize with your customers, and have an interest in the overall product lifecycle

• Effectively communicate complex subjects to our internal customers and partners

• Challenge the status quo and seek to find novel and customer-centric ways to solve problems

• Enjoy taking full ownership of open-ended problems, from concept to product, and effectively managing your own time. 

• Care about improving the systems around you and leaving things better than you found them.

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 $100,000 - $720,000.

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. 

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.