Senior Security Engineer - Cloud & AI Security Lead

Google LLC; Zürich; On-site; CHF 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC in Zürich is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to help secure Google Cloud and data center platforms. You will lead security assessments, design scalable security architectures, and mentor engineers to reduce risk across multi-quarter initiatives.

You will work with software engineers to identify and fix vulnerabilities, enhance security controls, and drive remediation aligned with business objectives. This role emphasizes collaboration across teams and hands-on security leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network security and security protocols.
• 5 years of experience with security assessments or security design reviews or threat modeling.
• Experience securing cloud and on-premise infrastructure (e.g., networking, virtualization) and platforms (e.g., OS hardening, containers, and orchestration).
• Experience building, deploying, and using AI/ML-driven approaches for security workflows (e.g., vulnerability identification, risk evaluation, remediation).

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive security assessments to identify systemic architectural vulnerabilities across data center/platform infrastructure and engineer reusable frameworks, automation, or security primitives to mitigate them at scale.
• Serve as a Technical Lead (TL) for project workstreams, mentoring junior engineers and guiding team technical strategy across multi-quarter initiatives.
• Develop solutions and roadmaps to identify areas of risks and to drive remediation, aligning with business objectives.
• Design and implement security architectures, controls, and processes to enhance the overall security posture.
• Review designs and provide security guidance to improve security of Google data centers and management platforms.

Skills

Security engineering

Security assessments

Threat modeling

Cloud security

AI/ML security workflows

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field

Tools

Container security

OS hardening

Orchestration tools

Job description

Google LLC in Zürich is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to help secure Google Cloud and data center platforms. You will lead security assessments, design scalable security architectures, and mentor engineers to reduce risk across multi-quarter initiatives.

You will work with software engineers to identify and fix vulnerabilities, enhance security controls, and drive remediation aligned with business objectives. This role emphasizes collaboration across teams and hands-on security leadership.