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Security Engineer (L4) - Application Security

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Remote
Hiring Remotely in USA
100K-720K Annually
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Remote
Hiring Remotely in USA
100K-720K Annually
Expert/Leader
As a Security Engineer at Netflix, you will lead application security initiatives, develop security solutions, and enhance developer experience while ensuring security compliance.
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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
The Application Security Team oversees the entire Application Security domain for Netflix, providing strategic guidance, delivering security services, supporting risk discovery and remediation, and managing security tooling.

About The Role

We’re hiring a Security Engineer for the Application Security team. In this role, you’ll partner closely with engineering teams across Netflix to deliver on critical AppSec services and develop AppSec tooling that scales security throughout our ecosystem and also.

You’ll drive the design and development of innovative security solutions, providing practical guidance to engineering teams and contributing to our security posture at scale. This is a highly cross-functional role where you’ll collaborate with developers, product managers and security engineers to solve complex technical challenges and continuously improve the developer experience with security controls.

We’re looking for someone passionate about pragmatic risk management, customer-centric security, and building systems that enable developers to move quickly and safely.

We are looking for stunning colleagues who enable our mission and support our culture.

You should have:

  • Deep application security expertise and hands on experience with bug bounty programs, threat modeling, security reviews, and pentesting

  • Familiarity with scripting and tooling

  • Familiarity with security tooling such as SAST, DAST, and network scanners

  • Skilled at analyzing and transforming data into insights, and enjoy solving challenging problems

  • Communicate effectively and clearly across diverse audiences

You will succeed in this role if you:

  • Thrive on solving large-scale challenges and owning the solutions you build

  • Balance short- and long-term priorities to make pragmatic, data-driven decisions

  • Are comfortable navigating ambiguity and tackling open-ended problems from concept to production

  • Care deeply about improving developer experience through effective security controls

  • Believe that diverse and inclusive teams are critical for sustainable and effective work

  • Take pride in leaving systems 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.

Top Skills

Application Security
Bug Bounty
Dast
Network Scanners
Penetration Testing
Sast
Scripting
Security Tooling
Threat Modeling

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