Privacy Engineer (L5)

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with 283 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.

We are looking for the next Privacy Engineer to join the team! You’ll join an established team of stunning colleagues in executing our privacy programs covering critical product areas such as streaming, advertising, games, access requests, and developing privacy by design for our products. This unique role combines technical privacy challenges with cross-functional complexities related to global, large-scale privacy programs.

In this role, you will have a front-row seat to Netflix’s new product features and plans. You will translate legal, regulatory, and customer expectations into actionable requirements, designs, and roadmaps (e.g., GDPR, CCPA). You’ll get to work on data at scale, privacy-enhancing technologies and techniques like data minimization, de-identification, and differential privacy, and data protection methods like data classification, encryption, hashing, and access management to provide the best possible outcomes for Netflix and our customers. You will use your technical privacy domain expertise and program management practices to influence what we do and how we do it.

This role offers a chance to make a real impact in . We'd love to hear from you if you're up for the challenge!

The Team

The Privacy Engineering organization is dedicated to ensuring safe & efficient data use across Netflix, and the Privacy Infrastructure Engineering team plays a vital role in this mission. We work closely with our stunning colleagues in privacy engineering, designing and building privacy and data protection solutions for the entire company. We promote privacy-enhancing designs, set engineering standards, and create systems to ensure Netflix manages data correctly. We are a small and agile team with tremendous visibility and impact, and with Netflix’s culture, you’ll decide how to use your talents and time best.

Desired Background:

• You’re passionate about privacy and data protection!

• You have 5+ years of experience working in privacy or privacy-related fields (security engineering, compliance), solving complex privacy problems with technical, business, regulatory, or organizational constraints (e.g., Privacy Engineer, Technical Program Manager). 

• You have experience working with online Ads or Advertising platforms

• You have strong subject matter expertise in supporting products or businesses on privacy topics such as data collection, usage, and deletion. You’re familiar with Privacy-Enhancing Technologies and know why and when to apply them. 

• You’re comfortable operating and making decisions in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment.

• You have excellent written and spoken communication skills and can effectively cross boundaries between technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• You have experience working with large-scale data assets, including querying and analyzing data.

Stunning colleagues come from different education levels and backgrounds. The determines who we hire, how we work together, and how we make decisions. You will be surrounded by great colleagues and empowered to produce your best work.

Compensation

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. Each year, you choose how much compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your top-of-market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to assess your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $100,000 - $720,000. 
 

Benefits

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits, including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, a 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 salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more details about our Benefits . 

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.