Senior Digital Forensics & Incident Response Engineer

Google; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

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Job summary

Google is seeking a Security Engineer for the Security Response team in the San Francisco area. The role focuses on protecting networks and systems, investigating security incidents, and collaborating with software engineers to fix vulnerabilities.

You will gain experience handling high-stakes forensic investigations and contribute to a global on-call response capability. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in security engineering, incident response, and digital forensics, with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with security assessments or security design reviews or threat modeling.
• 5 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network security and security protocols.
• 5 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.
• 4 years of practical experience with digital forensic analysis.

Responsibilities

• Perform investigations on a wide variety of security and privacy events from various sources to determine whether they pose a risk to Google.
• Participate in large-scale security and privacy incidents, write incident reports, and participate in post-mortems.
• Participate in internal training to make sure forensic best practices are followed.
• Work with teams from around Google to discover new investigative and forensics capabilities.
• Develop internal and Open Source tools used to respond to incidents to support Google’s unique environment.

Skills

Security assessments

Security design reviews

Threat modeling

Security engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

GRR

Plaso

The Sleuth Kit

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Job description

Google is seeking a Security Engineer for the Security Response team in the San Francisco area. The role focuses on protecting networks and systems, investigating security incidents, and collaborating with software engineers to fix vulnerabilities.

You will gain experience handling high-stakes forensic investigations and contribute to a global on-call response capability. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in security engineering, incident response, and digital forensics, with