Staff Software Engineer, Information Security Engineering

Google; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Information Security Engineering located in Singapore. The successful candidate will lead software supply chain security efforts, leveraging their deep expertise to influence stakeholders and develop innovative security solutions.

This role is critical for establishing strong engineering norms at the new site, ensuring security excellence while empowering developers with innovative solutions at scale. The position requires a bachelor’s degree and 8 years of relevant experience in software development.

Qualifications

• 8 years of relevant work experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new techniques for software systems.
• Lead a first-class software engineering team.
• Collaborate with partners to define team goals and roadmap.

Skills

Software development

Risk mitigation

API development

Leadership

C++ programming

Rust programming

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

C++

Rust

Open source technologies

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Information Security Engineering

Google, Singapore

Advanced

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of relevant work experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience developing and designing APIs.

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience working with open source technologies.
• Experience with Programming Language Implementation.

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

In this role, you will join Information Security Engineering (ISE) as a Senior Technical Lead in Safe Coding to lead our Software Supply Chain security efforts.

As a foundational hire in Singapore, you will serve as a cultural ambassador, establishing strong engineering norms and healthy team culture by leading by example. You will drive technical strategy and architect solutions to mitigate supply chain risks across various ecosystems. You will bring innovation, creative freedom, and ethical hacking to our new location, ensuring security excellence is built into the site’s DNA. Your mission is to solve complex problems that protect Google while maintaining developer velocity at scale.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new techniques and make them work for software systems across many product teams.
• Implement and validate security mitigations, apply techniques to improve spatial safety in C++ code, and contribute to the migration of Google's systems towards memory-safe programming languages such as Rust.
• Lead a first class software engineering team. Be responsible for the technical mentorship, team culture and engineering excellence.
• Collaborate with the engineering manager, Product Manager (PM) and Technical Program Manager (T/PgM) partners to define and execute the team's goal, roadmap and AI strategy and ensure a smooth transfer of existing projects and partnerships to the new team.
• Build strong partnerships and collaboration roadmaps with partner teams in Google's Software Supply Chain Integrity program, executive stakeholders, industry and academia.

English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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