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Netflix Software Engineer L4 Cloud Security 
United States, Oregon 
510589085

02.04.2025

The Role

Netflix Cloud Security is looking for a cloud infrastructure software engineer. As a Software Engineer for Netflix Cloud Security, you will drive product development for our industry-leading innovative security tools such as. This work involves development on both existing and new tools to discover, self-serve, right-size, and manage cloud resources while maintaining operational excellence to managing cloud security risk.

This is a distinct role within Cloud Security, to expand our capacity for software development work on our extensive collection of cloud security tools.

In this role, as a software engineer within a multidisciplinary cloud security team, you will be responsible for the challenges of configuring cloud resources at a massive scale. This role is perfect for you if you get excited about any of the following topics: resilience, observability, operations, debugging, resource thrashing, tagging namespaces, configuration management, system design, distributed systems, devops, observability, replication, monitoring, usability, metrics.

Prior security experience is not required, though you should be interested to learn about the, and work on security-related products. Youneed to be a security expert, but youneed to understand what could go wrong if we expose a critical control plane to an attacker.


You should have:

  • A broad understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure fundamentals

    (hey you! don't disqualify yourself by underestimating your expertise)

  • Experience developing software with Python or Golang

  • Familiarity with overall system design and architecture, and how to progressively improve software

What you'll need to be successful:

  • When you solve a problem, you seek to solve that entire class of problems through templated or automated patterns

  • You take a pragmatic approach by engaging transparently with the nuances and tradeoffs of software development

  • You thrive by identifying high-leverage opportunities to improve the systems around you, and leave things better than you found them

  • You can communicate good, to convey complex technical issues cross-functionally through written and verbal communication

  • You believe a diverse and inclusive team is a critical aspect of a sustainable and effective work environment

Nice to have:

  • Experience building robust systems or easy to use abstractions for AWS native services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, DDB, etc.

  • Experience leveraging AWS Config, Cloud Control API, CloudFormation, and CloudTrail

  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools

No certifications or degrees are required for this role.

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.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.