Security Engineer, Platforms and Devices

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 123,000 - 174,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Security Engineer to help protect user and developer environments. The role involves analyzing infrastructure and designs for vulnerabilities, developing detections, and partnering with cross‑functional teams to reduce risk.

Responsibilities include on‑call rotation, reviewing architecture for secure deployment, and building tools to detect abuse across platforms and devices. Strong design review and data analysis skills are essential.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Conduct reviews of infrastructure and service designs through the lens of information security, which will vary between 25-65% of working time week-to-week.
• Recommend changes to designs to account for future security concerns regarding access, abuse, and logging.
• Participate in incident investigation of logs to measure impact or find/hunt for indicators of compromise.
• Develop, test, and deploy new strategies for detecting abuse of Google services.

Skills

Security assessments

Threat modeling

Coding in general

Security engineering

Network security

Security protocols

Terabyte-scale data analysis

Cloud infrastructure

Linux shell scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

In most instances, this position requires in‑person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Minimum qualifications

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

Preferred qualifications

• 2 years of experience querying and analyzing Terabyte‑scale data sets in SQL.
• 2 years of experience working with highly‑available, cloud‑based infrastructure.
• Proficient in Linux shell scripting.

About The Job

Our Security team works to create and maintain the safest operating environment for Google's users and developers. Security Engineers work with network equipment and actively monitor our systems for attacks and intrusions. In this role, you will also work with software engineers to proactively identify and fix security flaws and vulnerabilities. Counter Abuse, Detection, and Response Workgroup. This is a focused role for security engineers who care about protecting the user and are familiar with Blue Team activities. This role requires periodic on‑call rotation work as part of the larger Detection, Signal, Analysis, and Protection incident management program. We aim to help Platforms and Devices (P&D) deliver trustworthy products and services by analyzing abuse or exploitation vectors that haven’t been discovered yet and either remediating the problem or devising new detections that trigger on an attacker’s behavior. This requires analyzing large datasets, both manually and with tooling, to deliver the most impact for the product area. Additionally, the role conducts regular design and architecture reviews to confirm that we launch with the most secure services possible for the customer. Identifying and addressing security issues in this type of stack requires not only strong technical expertise as a security engineer, but also the ability to partner with cross‑functional engineering and product teams to reduce overall security risk. In this role, you will grow into a counter‑abuse security subject‑matter expert and directly improve the security of fundamental building blocks, software services, and tools across Platforms and Devices.

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

US: $123000 - $174000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

• Conduct reviews of infrastructure and service designs through the lens of information security, which will vary between 25-65% of working time week‑to‑week.
• Recommend changes to designs to account for future security concerns regarding access, abuse, and logging.
• Participate in incident investigation of logs to measure impact or find/hunt for indicators of compromise.
• Develop, test, and deploy new strategies for detecting abuse of P&D services like Fitbit, Nest, Android Enterprise, Fi, and more.

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 .