Senior Security Engineer, Security Research

Google Inc.; München; On-site; EUR 128,000 - 131,000; Full time

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Job summary

Google Munich is seeking a Senior Security Engineer in Security Research to advance vulnerability research across platforms. You will conduct investigations, publish findings, and build scalable tooling while collaborating with engineers to remediate security flaws.

Project Zero team aims to raise the bar for user security by driving industry‑wide defensive improvements and sharing actionable guidance with the wider security community.

Qualifications

• Track record of excellent published security research.
• Depth of understanding in vulnerability research security fields.
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Conduct vulnerability research and publish results.
• Create tools and infrastructure to scale research.
• Collaborate with security engineers on analysis and response to vulnerabilities.
• Mentor junior team members and drive security improvements.

Skills

Published security research

Vulnerability research

Teamwork & communication

Job description

Senior Security Engineer, Security Research

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Mid

Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

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.

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 your 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

Learn more about benefits at Google.

• 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

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Equity is granted exclusively and discretionarily by Alphabet Inc. on the basis of an agreement concluded between you and Alphabet Inc. Alphabet Inc. is your sole contractual partner with respect to equity grants. GSU grants are not guaranteed, are discretionary, are subject to approval by the Alphabet Inc. board of directors or its delegate, the terms of the relevant Alphabet Inc. stock plan, and your grant agreement. They have no impact on statutory payments. Current or past grants do not confer an acquired right.

In-office locations: Munich, Germany.
Remote location(s): Germany.