Security Software Engineer (L4), Detection Engineering

Netflix is a company dedicated to entertaining the world through storytelling and technology. They are seeking a detection engineer to enhance their detection frameworks and proactively surface malicious activities to minimize risks to the business.

Responsibilities:

• Help mature and expand detection frameworks, platforms, and portfolio
• Create and continually improve detections that run on Netflix platforms to minimize risk
• Analyze high-risk attack paths and create focused detections to reduce risk to the business
• Collaborate with stakeholder teams and contribute creativity to the detection process
• Generate the largest impact and benefits for Netflix using a risk-based prioritization mindset

Requirements:

• You are comfortable working across the information security domain, with familiarity in a combination of endpoint, email, network, identity management, cloud security, vulnerability management, incident response, and/or threat intelligence
• You have hands-on experience analyzing and responding to security events, such as conducting log analysis, developing queries and analytics, troubleshooting security issues, and/or correlating complex data sets
• You can identify trends, insights, and relationships between internal and external data and intelligence sources to provide recommended risk mitigation
• You have experience implementing, using, and configuring some common security tools
• You have experience writing detections at scale using a detection-as-code approach
• You are able to script and develop automations, preferably using Python and SQL, in a cloud-based environment to contribute to our in-house platforms
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, proactively inform stakeholders, and can operate with little oversight
• You can effectively operate across teams and disciplines in highly ambiguous and rapidly changing environment
• You work well with others, see the value of a team, and partner effectively with all stakeholders
• You are comfortable working on ambitious projects with a very small, tight-knit team
• Comfortable or experience applying GenAI technologies to automate security operations is a plus