Cloud Security Engineer II — Safeguard AI & Autonomous Systems

Google; New York (NY); On-site; USD 123,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

PTO 20 days per year

Sick time 40 hours/year

Maternity Leave 28-30 weeks

Baby Bonding Leave 18 weeks

13 holidays

Job summary

Google is seeking a Security Engineer to safeguard Google workloads, networks, and data within the Hybrid Cloud Environments organization. You will collaborate with engineers to identify and fix vulnerabilities, and drive incident response and design reviews.

This role emphasizes building guarded, safe-by-default environments across internal platforms and autonomous AI agents, partnering with product and security teams to meet enterprise security baselines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.
• 1 year of experience with security assessments or security design reviews or threat modeling.
• Experience with security engineering, computer and network security and security protocols.

Responsibilities

• Complete scoped engineering tasks and make iterative improvements to both product code and security tools within larger projects. Manage standard operational tasks efficiently and apply established engineering practices with minimal daily supervision.
• Make straightforward risk assessments using intermediate knowledge of familiar security domains, recognizing when to elevate complex or ambiguous issues to executive engineers. Contribute to remediation efforts by applying known risk patterns and following established team guidelines.
• Utilize agentic development tools and AI assistants to accelerate the completion of defined coding, testing, and analysis tasks. Operate within established project guardrails and execute automated verification loops configured by the team.
• Implement clearly scoped features, tests, and security hardening measures for platforms supporting autonomous agents or secure sandboxes. Contribute to the maintenance of agentic governance infrastructure in line with architectural guidance.

Skills

Coding experience

Security assessments

Security engineering

Computer security

Security protocols

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Policy compilers

Automated deployment pipelines

GCP governance primitives

Job description

Google is seeking a Security Engineer to safeguard Google workloads, networks, and data within the Hybrid Cloud Environments organization. You will collaborate with engineers to identify and fix vulnerabilities, and drive incident response and design reviews.

This role emphasizes building guarded, safe-by-default environments across internal platforms and autonomous AI agents, partnering with product and security teams to meet enterprise security baselines.