Senior Security Engineer, Security Research

Google; Deutschland; Hybrid; EUR 128,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus target 15%

Benefits

Job summary

Google's Security team is dedicated to keeping the operating environment safe for users and developers. Project Zero drives industry-wide improvements through cutting-edge vulnerability research and responsible disclosure, supported by in-house tooling and exploit development.

In Germany, the role focuses on vulnerability research across iOS, macOS and XNU, building scalable infrastructure, and collaborating with engineers to harden defenses.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with reverse engineering.
• Experience with vulnerability and exploitation.
• Experience with technical writing.

Responsibilities

• Conduct vulnerability research and exploit development, specifically in (but not limited to) iOS, MacOS and XNU.
• Create tools and infrastructure that enables the team to scale up our research efforts.
• Engage the wider defensive community by publishing your results.
• Work with other security engineers on the analysis of, and response to vulnerabilities reported by other parties.

Skills

Reverse engineering

Vulnerability research

Exploit development

Technical writing

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:

In-office locations: Munich, Germany.

Remote location(s): Germany.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with reverse engineering.
• Experience with vulnerability and exploitation.
• Experience with technical writing.

Preferred qualifications:

• Track record of excellent published security research.
• Ability to demonstrate significant depth of understanding in one or more vulnerability research security fields.
• Excellent team-work, organizational and communication skills.

About The Job: Our Security team works to create and maintain the safest operating environment for Google's users and developers. Security Engineers work with network equipment and actively monitor our systems for attacks and intrusions. In this role, you will also work with software engineers to proactively identify and fix security flaws and vulnerabilities. Project Zero is a vendor-agnostic security research team housed within Google. The team aims to improve user security and increase the cost of targeted attacks by conducting industry leading security research. Our mission is to make zero-day exploits hard. Project Zero team members perform vulnerability research on security-critical software, and use their research results to drive industry-wide defensive improvements. We build tooling to scale security research, and create new methodologies for discovering high impact security vulnerabilities. We also use in-house exploit development to provide relevant and actionable guidance for long-term defenses and mitigations, and engage in non-technical work such as driving improvements to industry security processes and best practices. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Germany: €128000 - €131000 (EUR) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities:

• Conduct vulnerability research and exploit development, specifically in (but not limited to) iOS, MacOS and XNU.
• Create tools and infrastructure that enables the team to scale up our research efforts.
• Engage the wider defensive community by publishing your results.
• Work with other security engineers on the analysis of, and response to vulnerabilities reported by other parties.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.