Security Software Engineer 5
Description For Security Software Engineer 5
Netflix, a global entertainment leader with 300M+ subscribers, is seeking a Security Software Engineer 5 for their Platform Security team. This role focuses on building and maintaining critical security infrastructure, including cryptography, PKI, and workload identity services. You'll be part of a cohesive team that values collaboration and supports Netflix's unique security culture, which emphasizes secure-by-default infrastructure and rapid innovation.
The position involves designing and implementing features for workload identity services, managing application and hardware identities, and contributing to company-wide cryptography and PKI certificate services. You'll join an on-call rotation once familiar with the systems, ensuring continuous service reliability.
The ideal candidate brings 5+ years of software engineering experience with security exposure, strong Java expertise, and experience with scalable systems. Knowledge of workload identity, cryptography, or PKI is essential. Additional skills in full-stack development, Go, Python, React, and AWS are valuable.
Netflix offers a competitive compensation package ranging from $230K to $700K, with flexibility to choose between salary and stock options. The company promotes a strong culture of inclusion and diversity, operating in a remote-friendly environment that emphasizes engineering excellence and security innovation.
This role presents an opportunity to impact security at scale, working with cutting-edge technology while contributing to the platform that powers global entertainment delivery. The position combines technical depth with practical security implementation, making it ideal for experienced engineers passionate about security and scalable systems.
Responsibilities For Security Software Engineer 5
- Design, build, and support features in workload identity service
- Manage identities of applications, hardware, and other entities
- Contribute to cryptography and PKI certificate services
- Join on-call rotation to support services
- Build and maintain foundational security services
Requirements For Security Software Engineer 5
- 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering with some years of exposure to security work
- Expertise in Java development
- Experience building systems that have strong requirements for scalability and resilience
- Knowledge of computer security, especially workload identity, cryptography, or Public Key Infrastructure
- The drive to take ownership of your work and see it through to completion
- Experience with full-stack development (preferred)
- Familiarity with Go, Python, React, and other languages (preferred)
- Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (preferred)
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