Senior Cloud Firewall Engineer — Next-Gen Security & Scale

Google Inc.; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Inc. is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build the next-gen firewall for Google Cloud, focusing on Layer 7 security for intrusion prevention and detection of threats.

The role offers opportunities to work across distributed systems and large-scale infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on reliability and performance. We value engineers who can mentor teammates, drive progress, and tackle complex problems across the full stack, including networking, security, and data

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Golang or Python), or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• 5 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• 5 years of experience building and managing distributed software systems and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code. Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Implement high-quality solutions using Go, C++, Python, and more.
• Design reliable and performant solutions for Cloud Networking Security intrusion prevention and detection products.

Job description

Google Inc. is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build the next-gen firewall for Google Cloud, focusing on Layer 7 security for intrusion prevention and detection of threats.

The role offers opportunities to work across distributed systems and large-scale infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on reliability and performance. We value engineers who can mentor teammates, drive progress, and tackle complex problems across the full stack, including networking, security, and data