Security Engineer, Platforms & Devices — Threat Detection

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

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.