Senior Threat Intelligence Engineer – Incident & Detection

Google LLC; Zürich; On-site; CHF 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for the Threat Intelligence Group Threat Analyst role based in Switzerland. You will contribute to threat intelligence, incident response, and proactive defense across Google products and user security.

As a senior member, you will analyze risks, document TTPs, and provide actionable intelligence to product and security teams. You will drive automation, mentor colleagues, and work with minimal supervision to meet deadlines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years in security assessments, design reviews or threat modeling.
• 5 years in security engineering, network security and protocols.
• 5 years coding in general purpose languages.
• 1 year leading teams or technical risk analysis.
• 2 years in threat intelligence, incident response or SOC.
• Experience in detection engineering with YARA, Snort/Suricata, EDR rule creation.
• Experience in Python, C/C++, or scripting.
• Experience in reverse engineering.
• Strong network fundamentals and C2 techniques.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Identify, analyze, and document network signals, malware behaviors, and threat reports.
• Provide clear, actionable, and structured intelligence to product and security teams. Assist in ensuring corporate and production systems are safeguarded.
• Own the analysis efforts of multiple threat actors, and serve as a subject matter expert on how those actors might impact Google and our users.
• Enhance analysis efficiency by conceiving and implementing automation opportunities, developing proof-of-concept code, and collaborating with stakeholders to deploy solutions.
• Be capable of quickly identifying personal and team priorities, and able to work on assignments with minimal supervision while maintaining quality and deadlines.

Skills

Security assessments

Threat modeling

Security engineering

Networking security

Coding

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

YARA

Snort/Suricata

EDR rule creation

Python

C/C++

Job description

Google is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for the Threat Intelligence Group Threat Analyst role based in Switzerland. You will contribute to threat intelligence, incident response, and proactive defense across Google products and user security.

As a senior member, you will analyze risks, document TTPs, and provide actionable intelligence to product and security teams. You will drive automation, mentor colleagues, and work with minimal supervision to meet deadlines.