Senior Digital Forensics & Security Engineer

Google Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

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Equity

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Benefits

Job summary

Google in New York, NY, USA is seeking a Senior Security Engineer specializing in Digital Forensics to join our Security Response team. You will own investigations, contribute to incident and crisis management, and work with engineers across Google to harden systems and respond to threats.

The role emphasizes digital forensics, incident handling, and security engineering across multiple operating environments, with a strong emphasis on practical, hands-on analysis and collaboration.

Qualifications

• 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 to determine threats to Google.
• Participate in large-scale security incidents, write incident reports and conduct post-mortems.
• Develop internal and Open Source tools to support incident response.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and fix security gaps.
• Contribute to forensic best practices and training within the team.

Skills

Security assessments

Security design reviews

Threat modeling

Security engineering

Digital forensic analysis

Coding in general languages

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

GRR

Plaso (log2timeline)

The Sleuth Kit (TSK)

libyal

Guidance EnCase

Cellebrite

Job description

Google in New York, NY, USA is seeking a Senior Security Engineer specializing in Digital Forensics to join our Security Response team. You will own investigations, contribute to incident and crisis management, and work with engineers across Google to harden systems and respond to threats.

The role emphasizes digital forensics, incident handling, and security engineering across multiple operating environments, with a strong emphasis on practical, hands-on analysis and collaboration.