Privacy Engineer (L4), Data Protection

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.

Data Protection Team

The Privacy & Data Protection Engineering (PDPE) organization at Netflix ensures responsible data use and provides guidance and tooling to manage data privacy across the company. PDPE is a cross-functional team comprising Privacy Engineering, Data Protection, and Privacy Infrastructure Engineering and is part of the larger Security, Privacy, and Assurance (SPA) organization. The Data Protection team focuses on developing policies on data collection and use with privacy as a foundational layer to enable Netflix’s rapidly growing businesses. Data Protection works internally within PDPE and with partner teams across Netflix to provide visibility and comprehensive insights into Netflix’s data assets and to define, build, and promote right-sized and right-timed policies, controls, and capabilities for data management across its lifecycle.

The Role

We are looking for a Privacy Engineer to join our Data Protection team with an exciting mission of protecting all data at Netflix! You will work closely with security and privacy engineers, software and data engineers, product managers, legal, product and engineering leadership to design, develop, and maintain effective data handling guidelines and policies.

In this role you will help drive forward the technical direction, strategies, and plans of the Data Protection Program. You will develop great technical documentation and facilitate alignment across cross-functional teams to ensure our guidance, tooling and practices are driving tangible data privacy improvements both in the management of personal information and accountability of our privacy program. This role will have a significant impact, ranging from protecting data at a massive scale to how Netflix engineers use data and data tools in their daily work.

What You Will Do:

• Operational business unit, technical, and legal support of the enterprise-wide Data Protection Program.

• Contribute to development and update of policies and requirements for privacy tools.

• Review and develop reports to assess the effectiveness of our privacy policies/processes.

• Follow up with business units to identify new areas for expansion of tooling or improvement in privacy controls and triage issues that impact data enablement or privacy.

• Monitor remediation activities and error logs in collaboration with senior team members.

Desired Background:

• Strong understanding of privacy regulations

• 3+ years of experience in data management and privacy and translating data risks into scalable, tailored, and pragmatic controls that enhance the organization's security posture.

• Excellent communication and relationship skills.

• Ability to apply privacy expertise to Netflix products or services to improve Netflix's privacy posture and measure impact.

• Can identify and drive solutions for privacy issues that have a positive impact on risk reduction or business enablement.

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and an open-minded approach to problem-solving, fostering an inclusive and feedback-driven culture.

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.

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.