Information Security Engineer, Product Security Engineering

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

PTO 20 days

Sick time 40 hours/yr

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Holidays 13 days

Job summary

Google is seeking a Security Engineer to help protect Google Cloud and its users. You will work with software engineers to identify and fix security flaws, perform risk assessments, and lead incident resolution.

The role emphasizes threat modeling, security reviews, and secure design, with opportunities to influence defenses across networks and applications. US-based, with a competitive compensation package.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of security assessments or threat modeling.
• 2 years of security engineering, computer and network security and security protocols.
• 2 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.

Responsibilities

• Perform security reviews, reproduce vulnerabilities, design secure protocols and systems, and write tests and fuzzers.
• Review and develop secure operational practices, and provide security guidance for engineers and support staff.
• Review designs and drive towards defense in depth and security by default, both with one-time reviews and longer term engagements.
• Look for vulnerabilities with techniques including reverse engineering, fuzzing, and static analysis.
• Respond to vulnerabilities with repros, variant analysis, mitigations, and hardening. Focus on the security strategy for Google Cloud.

Skills

Security assessments

Threat modeling

Security engineering

Coding skills

Threat detection

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications

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

Preferred qualifications

• Experience identifying and mitigating network security risks using threat modeling and other risk identification techniques.
• Experience in applications security, cryptography, network security or systems security.
• Experience with C++ dynamic analysis and static code analysis.
• Expertise in security assessments, vulnerability management and security research.

About The Job

There's no such thing as a "safe system" - only safer systems. Our Security team works to create and maintain the safest operating environment for Google's users and developers. As a Security Engineer, you help protect network boundaries, keep computer systems and network devices hardened against attacks and provide security services to protect highly sensitive data like passwords and customer information. Security Engineers work directly with network equipment and actively monitor our systems for attacks and intrusions. You also work with software engineers to proactively identify and fix security flaws and vulnerabilities.

You use your industry experience to own and drive the resolution of complex security incidents, policy questions and technical security issues.

In this role, you will help set the focus, direction and impact of this organization with regards to product security. There is an exciting mix of work to be accomplished across multiple security domains. A few examples are security reviews, security education, web application scanning and testing, vulnerability research and security data analysis all with the goal of highlighting and driving down risk.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $147000 - $210000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

• Perform security reviews, research and reproduce vulnerabilities, design secure protocols and systems, and write tests and fuzzers.
• Review and develop secure operational practices, and provide security guidance for engineers and support staff.
• Review designs and drive towards defense in depth and security by default, both with one-time reviews and longer term engagements.
• Look for vulnerabilities with techniques including reverse engineering, fuzzing, and static analysis.
• Respond to vulnerabilities with repros, variant analysis, mitigations, and hardening. Focus on the security strategy for Google Cloud.

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.