Security Engineer 6 - Workforce and Infrastructure 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.
The Team and Role
Netflix is seeking an experienced Staff Security Engineer to join our Workforce and Infrastructure Security (WISSE) leadership team. The WISSE organization is responsible for driving proactive security controls across our technology footprint. This role will be focused on specific engagements on emerging and critical risks for the business identified via the risk lifecycle (eg: GenAI security being the imminent one). You will be responsible for understanding the overall business context and threat landscape for an initiative, driving strategy and guiding execution for the risk mitigation outcomes.
You should have
A demonstrated ability to significantly reduce risk and influence technical strategy within complex organizations, drawing on broad security experience across multiple domains.
Experience with emerging security problems in the GenAI space, including familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCPs), agentic development, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and orchestration frameworks, as well as awareness of common GenAI vulnerability classes.
Demonstrated technical breadth across multiple security domains, with depth in one or more of:
InfraSec: Zero trust architecture, OAuth, workload identity federation
AppSec: Secure-by-design principles, threat modeling, and securing agentic or GenAI-enabled applications.
CloudSec: security controls across compute, storage, networking, and identity in managed cloud environments
A well balanced perspective on defense strategies informed by attacker context.
Knowledge of emerging industry standards.
Ability to to bring clarity of vision to ambiguous and complex spaces.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, adapting messaging for various audiences, including senior leadership, to ensure effective reach.
Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to balance business needs with risk mitigation goals.
A proactive and strategic mindset, with a commitment to incremental improvement and innovation in security.
Strong mentorship skills, adept at developing technical talent and executing complex initiatives through others.
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 $360,000 - $920,000.
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 details about our Benefitshere.
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 diversitybuilds 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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Security Engineer 6 - Workforce and Infrastructure 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.
The Team and Role
Netflix is seeking an experienced Staff Security Engineer to join our Workforce and Infrastructure Security (WISSE) leadership team. The WISSE organization is responsible for driving proactive security controls across our technology footprint. This role will be focused on specific engagements on emerging and critical risks for the business identified via the risk lifecycle (eg: GenAI security being the imminent one). You will be responsible for understanding the overall business context and threat landscape for an initiative, driving strategy and guiding execution for the risk mitigation outcomes.
You should have
A demonstrated ability to significantly reduce risk and influence technical strategy within complex organizations, drawing on broad security experience across multiple domains.
Experience with emerging security problems in the GenAI space, including familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCPs), agentic development, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and orchestration frameworks, as well as awareness of common GenAI vulnerability classes.
Demonstrated technical breadth across multiple security domains, with depth in one or more of:
InfraSec: Zero trust architecture, OAuth, workload identity federation
AppSec: Secure-by-design principles, threat modeling, and securing agentic or GenAI-enabled applications.
CloudSec: security controls across compute, storage, networking, and identity in managed cloud environments
A well balanced perspective on defense strategies informed by attacker context.
Knowledge of emerging industry standards.
Ability to to bring clarity of vision to ambiguous and complex spaces.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, adapting messaging for various audiences, including senior leadership, to ensure effective reach.
Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to balance business needs with risk mitigation goals.
A proactive and strategic mindset, with a commitment to incremental improvement and innovation in security.
Strong mentorship skills, adept at developing technical talent and executing complex initiatives through others.
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 $360,000 - $920,000.
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 details about our Benefitshere.
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 diversitybuilds 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.