Software Engineer (L4) Trust & Safety

Netflix is one of the world’s leading entertainment services with 278 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.

The Role

We are looking for a software engineer to build and operate production quality systems at Netflix scale for detection and prevention across the fraud landscape, focusing first on DDoS. The person in this role will have an opportunity to enhance efficiency and performance of a broad suite of fraud services. You will be responsible for a mix of project based development and operational coverage to ensure our services remain nimble. You will combat at-scale fraud schemes by ensuring we minimize tech debt and identify areas of improvement to stay ahead of our adversaries. This is a great opportunity to learn and grow in this field while continuing to have an impact in improving our fraud detection and prevention.

The Team
The Trust Services and Enforcement team is a subteam within our broader Trust & Safety organization. It is a central security team that sets a broad strategic vision in the trust and safety space focused on various types of fraud and abuse. We execute that vision through both technical work on the team and cross-functional partnerships, addressing problems related to account takeover, service abuse, customer-targeted scams, DDoS, content theft, and more. We are looking for a software engineer to build and operate production quality systems at the Netflix scale for detection and prevention across the fraud landscape.

Desired skills and background:

• Passionate about protecting our customers

• Ability to collaborate effectively within and across teams

• Ability to define and execute short and long term technical goals 

• Experience developing software and interest to learn developing at-scale

• 2+ years experience with Java for backend development

• Working knowledge of networking concepts and/or some prior experience in security preferred

We are looking for thoughtful professionals who enable our mission and support our culture of freedom and responsibility.  You can learn more about life at Netflix by watching our security talks or exploring our open-source work.

The Netflix culture permeates our work environment. It determines who we hire, how we work together, and how we make decisions. It encourages us to bring our best every day while valuing collaboration over individual achievement. 

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.

Netflix is a unique culture and environment.  Learn more here.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background 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.