Security Engineer II — Hybrid Cloud & Safe-by-Default

Google; United States; Hybrid; USD 123,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Sick time

Maternity leave

Baby Bonding Leave

Holidays

Job summary

Google is hiring a Security Engineer II for Hybrid Cloud Guidelines. The role focuses on protecting Google Cloud workloads, implementing safe‑by‑default guardrails, and collaborating across product, security, and engineering teams to resolve complex security incidents.

Ideal candidates have practical security engineering experience, familiarity with Terraform and GCP governance primitives, and the ability to work in a hybrid environment.

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.
• Make straightforward risk assessments using intermediate knowledge of familiar security domains, recognizing when to elevate complex or ambiguous issues to executive engineers.
• Utilize agentic development tools and AI assistants to accelerate the completion of defined coding, testing, and analysis tasks.
• Implement clearly scoped features, tests, and security hardening measures for platforms supporting autonomous agents or secure sandboxes.

Skills

Security engineering

Network security

Threat modeling

Security assessments

Coding experience

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

GCP governance

Job description

Google is hiring a Security Engineer II for Hybrid Cloud Guidelines. The role focuses on protecting Google Cloud workloads, implementing safe‑by‑default guardrails, and collaborating across product, security, and engineering teams to resolve complex security incidents.

Ideal candidates have practical security engineering experience, familiarity with Terraform and GCP governance primitives, and the ability to work in a hybrid environment.