# Software Engineer 5 - Ads Authorization (AuthZ) Platform at Netflix

- Company: Netflix
- What the company does: Watch Netflix movies & TV shows online or stream right to your smart TV, game console, PC, Mac, mobile, tablet and more. Backed by IVP and Redpoint.
- Company website: https://www.netflix.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: 2 Locations
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-31
- Apply: https://netflix.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Netflix/job/New-York/Software-Engineer-5---Ads-Authorization--AuthZ--Platform_JR42614
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/netflix-software-engineer-5-ads-authorization-authz-platform/

## About the role

Co-drive the build vs. buy evaluation for centralized authorization - contribute to vendor bake-offs (Oso, Permit.io, Cerbos, OpenFGA, AuthZed, AWS Verified Permissions/Cedar) against an in-house option, weighing latency, flexibility, operational cost, and vendor lock-in. Help design the policy model : roles vs. permissions vs. relations, org-level vs. resource-level roles, role hierarchies, resource ownership/sharing, multi-tenancy.

## What they're looking for

- 5–8+ years backend/software engineering experience shipping production systems
- Hands-on experience working on or building an authorization system - solid RBAC fundamentals, with real understanding of roles, permissions, role hierarchies, and resource-level vs. org-level scoping
- Solid conceptual grounding in authz fundamentals - able to reason through tradeoffs between RBAC, ABAC, and ReBAC (relationship-based / Zanzibar-style) approaches
- Some exposure to evaluating or integrating a policy engine/framework (Oso, OPA/Rego, Cerbos, OpenFGA, AuthZed/SpiceDB, AWS Cedar) - or having worked on an equivalent in-house
- Strong systems design skills: low-latency decision services, caching, consistency vs. performance tradeoffs
- Proficient in one backend stack (Java/Kotlin/Go/Node/Python)


Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/netflix-software-engineer-5-ads-authorization-authz-platform/