Software Engineer (L6), Platform Security

Overview

Software Engineer (L6) focused on platform security for Netflix’s Open Connect edge and gaming appliances.

What you'll do

• Define and evolve the security architecture across the full compute stack from hardware interfaces through dual operating systems.
• Implement security enhancements using kernel/user-space development, configuration changes, and hardware-based security features.
• Improve platform integrity via measured/secure boot and BMC access controls and auditability.
• Analyze and triage system-level security bugs and provide appliance security expertise during incident response.
• Develop automated systems and low-level tooling for vulnerability research and to reduce manual security overhead in build/test/release workflows.
• Partner with stakeholders to build secure architecture for binary ingestion and execution.
• Act as a security liaison between Open Connect and other organizations and relevant external groups.

What you'll need

• Proven track record of architecting and implementing security features that 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.
• Success partnering cross-functionally to improve security posture.
• Experience using AI agents to automate security research.

Nice to have

• Experience with measured/secure boot and hardware roots of trust.
• Experience working on highly distributed systems and fuzzing complex systems.
• Experience with C, Golang, Python.

Details

• Location: USA (Remote).