Edge Security Engineer — Low-Level Systems

Netflix; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 499,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Plans

Mental Health support

401(k) Retirement Plan with employer 


Stock Option Program

Disability Programs

Health Savings and Flexible Spending

Job summary

Netflix seeks a Security Software Engineer to architect and implement system-level security for the OC edge and gaming appliances. You will influence the security stack from hardware interfaces through dual OS (FreeBSD and Linux) and drive measured boot, access controls, and incident response.

You will partner with hardware, software, and security teams, develop tooling for vulnerability research, and advance hardware root-of-trust concepts like TPMs/HSMs.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of architecting and implementing security features that meaningfully improve system security.
• Deep expertise in low-level systems and hardware security across a heterogeneous stack (kernels, firmware, BMC, BIOS/UEFI, FPGA).
• Experience using operating system execution environments such as containers or virtual machines to enhance security.
• Experience using AI agents to automate security research.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the security architecture of the full compute stack, from hardware interfaces through dual operating systems (FreeBSD and Linux).
• Implement security enhancements using kernel and user-space development, configuration changes, or leveraging hardware-based security features such as TPMs and hardware offload.
• Drive platform integrity work including measured/secure boot for appliances and improved BMC access controls and auditability.
• Analyze and triage new system-level security bugs, including hardware/GPU and OS isolation issues and provide appliance security expertise during incident response.
• Partner with stakeholders in different organizations to build secure architecture for binary ingestion and execution.
• Develop automated systems and low-level tooling to perform vulnerability research and reduce manual security overhead in build, test, and release workflows.
• Act as a security liaison between OC and other organizations, and stay plugged into the right external groups (silicon/firmware vendors, OS communities, disclosure partners).
• Demonstrate versatility by learning and adapting to new architectures and features as they evolve.

Skills

Low-level security

Kernel/firmware security

Containers/VMs security

AI-assisted security research

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

FreeBSD

Linux

Job description

Netflix seeks a Security Software Engineer to architect and implement system-level security for the OC edge and gaming appliances. You will influence the security stack from hardware interfaces through dual OS (FreeBSD and Linux) and drive measured boot, access controls, and incident response.

You will partner with hardware, software, and security teams, develop tooling for vulnerability research, and advance hardware root-of-trust concepts like TPMs/HSMs.