Security Software Engineer (L5), Authentication Engineering

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.

Our Identity and Authentication Security (IAS) Team is seeking a Security Software Engineer to help mature our enterprise authentication platform. In this role, you will tackle complex security challenges that are unique to Netflix business—there are no turnkey solutions for the problems we solve. Your work will be a strategic differentiator, directly impacting the company’s ability to innovate and scale securely.

Key Responsibilities

• Pioneer Custom Solutions:Enhance our passwordless and SSO solutions for enterprise users such as passkeys, phishing-resistant MFA, and device posture validations. Tailor these implementations to address the complex needs of Netflix, allowing our systems to meet the speed of business operations.

• Strategic Impact:Play a key role in shaping our security posture, ensuring it remains a competitive advantage as our business evolves and diversifies.

• Autonomous Decision-Making: Enjoy high autonomy in making critical decisions about the direction and future of our authentication control systems.

• Address Complexity:Manage complexity arising from our growing and diverse enterprise user base, and reduce it where possible to ensure security keeps pace with business expansion.

• Continuous Improvement:Identify gaps and areas for improvement in our current security engineering practices, and lead initiatives to enhance our capabilities.

Required Skills & Competencies

• Creative problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive where there is no playbook.

• Comfort with making strategic decisions with a high degree of autonomy.

• Humility and a willingness to receive and act on feedback from peers and managers.

• Ability to balance security requirements with user experience (UX) considerations.

• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to a broad audience, both in writing and verbally.

• Demonstrable expert ability in one or more modern programming languages (e.g. Java, Kotlin, Rust, Go, Python, Ruby, etc).

• Experience in building or scaling SSO authentication systems in complex environments using Okta and industry standards such as: OIDC/OAuth2, SAML 2.0, FIDO2/WebAuthn, and/or SCIM.

• Experience using infrastructure-as-code technologies (e.g. Terraform) to manage authentication infrastructure and policies.

• Experience building resilient, low latency, and highly available distributed applications.

• Experience working cross-functionally with teams to deliver company-wide solutions.

• Experience operating and optimizing services deployed on cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure).

Nice to Have, But Not Required

• Experience leveraging NoSQL databases (e.g. Cassandra) and analytics frameworks (e.g. Spark, Presto, Hive) to support large-scale, data-intensive operations.

• Experience building graphical user interfaces with common frontend programming tools, technologies and/or frameworks (e.g. React).

• Experience developing robust, automated regression tests for account lifecycle management.

• Experience delivering data analytics dashboards with business intelligence tools (e.g. Tableau).

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 Benefitshere.

Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn morehere.

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.