Senior Cloud Security Engineer – Threat Detection & IAM

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google in Sunnyvale, CA is hiring software engineers to build next-generation technologies at scale across distributed systems, security, and data storage. You will design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain software solutions while collaborating across teams.

You will participate in design reviews, guide project execution, and contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing. The role offers competitive compensation with bonus and equity, reflecting market norms in the US.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience programming in C++, Java or Go.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of experience building software for data privacy or security (e.g., identity and access management).
• Experience in distributed computing.

Responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• 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.

Skills

C++/Java/Go

Software testing

Software design

Software architecture

Security software

Distributed computing

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master's degree in Computer Science

PhD in Computer Science

Job description

Google in Sunnyvale, CA is hiring software engineers to build next-generation technologies at scale across distributed systems, security, and data storage. You will design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain software solutions while collaborating across teams.

You will participate in design reviews, guide project execution, and contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing. The role offers competitive compensation with bonus and equity, reflecting market norms in the US.