Security Software Engineer (L6), Platform Security

Netflix is a leading entertainment company that focuses on pushing the boundaries of storytelling through creativity and technology. The Security Software Engineer will help innovate within the domain of agentic identity, design and maintain critical identity and authentication services, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to deliver secure solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Help innovate within the domain of agentic identity as we build out a platform offering to enable various GenAI use cases
• Serve as one of the technical 'North Stars' on the team and advocate for changes, advancements, and innovation within our domain in order to meet business needs
• Design, build, and maintain critical identity and authentication services
• Develop features and enhancements related to agentic identity, workload identity, mTLS, and authentication token issuance
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners to deliver secure, reliable, and developer-friendly solutions
• Participate in our on-call rotation, supporting high-availability services that are critical to Netflix’s security posture

Requirements:

• Distinguished Technical Leader who identifies and solves highly complex, open-ended problems, driving significant business and technical impact and defining the longer-term technical strategy for identity and authentication at Netflix
• Advanced proficiency in Java, with extensive experience designing and building scalable, resilient, and secure distributed systems
• Deep expertise within the security domain, particularly in workload identity, cryptography, or Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). You are considered a thought leader who can directly solve problems that most engineers cannot
• Connects security and business needs to define the guiding principles for the domain, and you effectively collaborate and influence cross-functionally to drive the adoption of those principles and your technical roadmaps
• Demonstrates excellent judgment in making complex trade-off decisions, distilling ambiguous problems into elegant, secure-by-default solutions
• A mentor and collaborator with a team-oriented mindset who tailors communication for a given audience
• Help innovate within the domain of agentic identity as we build out a platform offering to enable various GenAI use cases
• Serve as one of the technical 'North Stars' on the team and advocate for changes, advancements, and innovation within our domain in order to meet business needs
• Design, build, and maintain critical identity and authentication services
• Develop features and enhancements related to agentic identity, workload identity, mTLS, and authentication token issuance
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners to deliver secure, reliable, and developer-friendly solutions
• Participate in our on-call rotation, supporting high-availability services that are critical to Netflix's security posture
• Experience in cryptography, secure distributed systems, authentication, or secure hardware
• Familiarity with Go, Python, React, and other languages
• Knowledge of Amazon Web Services
• Experience with full-stack development