Director, AI-Driven Security Defense Platforms

Google LLC; San Francisco, New York (CA, NY); On-site; USD 307,000 - 427,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC in San Francisco is seeking a Share Director, Security Defense Platforms to lead the global software engineering organization responsible for foundational software, streaming pipelines, telemetry architectures, and AI-driven automated containment that powers Google’s detection and response operations.

You will bridge software engineering with cyber defense, partnering with Detection and Response domain leads and enterprise platform teams to elevate Google's security posture from

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cyber security, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of software engineering and technical leadership experience, including 6 years of experience managing managers and leading multi-site engineering organizations.
• Experience partnering with security operations, threat intelligence, or incident response teams to build developer and detection platforms.
• Experience using modern AI/ML applications in cyber security including automated reasoning, LLM-based agent evaluation, anomaly detection, and synthetic threat injection/watermarking.

Responsibilities

• Lead the global software engineering organization responsible for foundational software, streaming pipelines, telemetry architectures, and AI-driven automated containment infrastructure.
• Bridge software engineering with cyber defense partnering with Detection and Response domain leads and enterprise platform teams to transform Google's security posture from Detect and Respond to Infer and Interrupt.
• Mentor and grow a globally distributed organization of Software Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, and Software Engineers across multiple global sites.
• Own the long-term architectural road map for Detection and Response core infrastructure and lead deployment of automated threat containment.

Skills

Software eng leadership

Security operations collaboration

AI/ML in cyber security

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/Cybersecurity or equivalent

Tools

SOAR

SIEM

EDR data fabrics

Job description

Google LLC in San Francisco is seeking a Share Director, Security Defense Platforms to lead the global software engineering organization responsible for foundational software, streaming pipelines, telemetry architectures, and AI-driven automated containment that powers Google’s detection and response operations.

You will bridge software engineering with cyber defense, partnering with Detection and Response domain leads and enterprise platform teams to elevate Google's security posture from