Senior AI Security Engineer - Cloud

Google; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 174,000 - 253,000; 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

Equity

Bonus

Job summary

Google’s Cloud CCSE team seeks engineers to design and scale secure platforms that automate security checks across the developer pipeline and production systems. You will work on AI-driven security capabilities, drive end‑to‑end security standards, and mentor engineers to grow into technical leaders.

We value experience with AI/ML infrastructure, secure SDLC practices, threat modeling, and the ability to distill complex security data into actionable roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience programming in Python or C++.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 2 years of experience in security engineering, with a focus on infrastructure security, secure SDLC, threat modeling, or automated vulnerability discovery.
• 1 year of experience with AI/ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging).
• Experience with designing and evaluating AI‑assisted tools or automation workflows to drive engineering efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale robust, secure platforms that automate security checks across Google Cloud’s developer pipeline and production systems.
• Design, optimize, and evaluate AI‑driven security capabilities, leading the identification of AI opportunities across CCSE; including coding.
• Establish engineering and security standards for large‑scale distributed systems, ensuring robust end‑to‑end security.
• Analyze and distill complex technical and security data to drive key organizational decisions and roadmap prioritization.
• Provide technical leadership for multiple teams, vet system designs, and mentor executive engineers to help them grow into technical leaders.

Skills

Python

C++

Software testing

Security engineering

AI/ML infrastructure

Threat modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree or PhD in CS or related field

Tools

Security tooling

Cloud security tools

Job description

Google’s Cloud CCSE team seeks engineers to design and scale secure platforms that automate security checks across the developer pipeline and production systems. You will work on AI-driven security capabilities, drive end‑to‑end security standards, and mentor engineers to grow into technical leaders.

We value experience with AI/ML infrastructure, secure SDLC practices, threat modeling, and the ability to distill complex security data into actionable roadmaps.