Senior Digital Forensics Security Engineer — DFIR & Incidents

Google; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Security Engineer to protect our global infrastructure and user data. You will work on network boundaries, harden systems, and provide security services for sensitive data, collaborating with software engineers to fix vulnerabilities.

You will lead investigations, write incident reports, and contribute to crisis management as part of the Security Response team across multiple regions. This role includes on-call responsibilities and opportunities to shape forensics

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Perform investigations on a wide variety of security and privacy events from various sources to determine whether they pose a threat 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 (e.g., digital forensic toolkits) to support Google’s unique environment.

Skills

Threat modeling

Security engineering

Network security

Security protocols

Coding

Digital forensics

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

GRR

Plaso

The Sleuth Kit

libyal

Cellebrite

CrowdStrike Falcon

Volatility

Job description

Google is seeking a Security Engineer to protect our global infrastructure and user data. You will work on network boundaries, harden systems, and provide security services for sensitive data, collaborating with software engineers to fix vulnerabilities.

You will lead investigations, write incident reports, and contribute to crisis management as part of the Security Response team across multiple regions. This role includes on-call responsibilities and opportunities to shape forensics