Netflix

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.

Securing our members’ data and accounts appropriately is key to maintaining a high level of trust with our customers. In addition, securing our technology infrastructure and understanding inherent risks are essential to enable us to scale our business effectively while maintaining a healthy security posture. We are looking for an experienced leader to help lead the Security Data Engineering team within the broader Infrastructure Data Products group. This team brings the data and observability necessary to run an effective security practice at Netflix. You will work in close partnership with Security Engineers, Program Managers, and Engineering Leaders to enable a highly data-driven security organization to be effective in its goals to build a more secure and trustworthy Netflix service.

To be successful in this role, you need to be a strong people leader; be great at giving and receiving feedback, fostering new ideas, and maintaining exceptional team health. You also need strong data and engineering backgrounds, with strong experience in the security domain. You will be expected to cover a large surface area spanning member security, service fraud, and internal infrastructure security. Experience working across multiple time zones and cultures will also be critical since the team is distributed between the US and Europe.

Responsibilities

• Vision: You intuitively understand the impact of security on the business, and you leverage that to guide the team by providing context and inspiration.
• Team Health: You are constantly on the lookout for talent and have a knack for recognizing and attracting top-tier engineers to your team. You understand the importance of building an amazing team that is additive and diverse, and the value it brings to the overall company. Just as important as recruiting, you develop connections with the team and help them flourish in their roles, so the team retains its best talent.
• Feedback & Development: You will coach and guide employees through their strengths and weaknesses through regular feedback.
• Partnership: You will work to establish strong relationships with stakeholders across partner engineering teams.

Skills & Characteristics

• You are a strong people leader who also demonstrates humility. You care deeply about people and their success. You invest in your relationships so that you understand the whole person and their perspective.
• You’re not afraid of tough conversations, and you're experienced in coaching your colleagues through difficult situations. You're comfortable sharing your perspective on challenging people dynamics.
• You seek to de-escalate tense situations and are creative and flexible in finding balance with partners to maximize impact.
• You are a strong communicator and self-aware about how others perceive your comments. As someone in a leadership role, you aim to be assertive, not passive or aggressive, in providing input, support, and feedback.
• You are forward-looking and able to anticipate the investments Netflix should be making to improve our security posture.
• You’re allergic to micromanagement. You prefer to give context, delegate, and watch amazing people exceed your hopes and expectations.

Preferred Requirements

• You have a strong background in leading security-focused data teams at a large-scale, consumer-facing company.
• You have 8+ years of overall experience in data engineering, and your background includes strong programming (at least 1 major language) and SQL experience.
• You have strong experience with distributed data processing technologies (i.e., Spark/Hadoop, etc.)
• You have 3+ years of engineering leadership experience.
• You have an MS or BS in Computer Science/Engineering, or a related technical field.
• You have led globally distributed teams and are well-versed with best practices for promoting cross-region collaboration

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 $360,000 - $920,000.

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 diversity builds 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.