Security Engineer (L5) - Application and Infrastructure Security
Remote, United States
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 BackgroundWe 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.
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.
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. Apply
Job Profile
Regions Countries Benefits/Perks401(k) Retirement Plan Annual salary Disability Programs Family-forming Benefits Flexible Spending Accounts Flexible time off Health plans Health Savings Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts Life and Serious Injury Benefits Mental health support Paid leave of absence programs Paid Time Off Stock option program Stock options
SkillsAPI security Architecture Collaboration Communication Compensation structure Design Engineering Infrastructure Security Network security Network security strategy Operating systems security Platform security Secure design Security Architecture Security Engineering Stock options Threat modeling Verbal communication Vulnerability Management
Tasks- Collaboration
- Communication
- Conduct security assessments
- Develop security strategies
- Drive remediation
- Implement risk reduction strategies
- Management
- Manage risk in engineering ecosystem
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