Senior Security Engineer — Access Risk & IAM Architect

Google; Ionia (NY); On-site; USD 174,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Google seeks a Senior Security Engineer for the PRISM team in New York to strengthen internal access controls and reduce production infrastructure abuse. The role bridges security research with hands-on engineering, focusing on secure-by-default solutions for Google's critical infrastructure.

You will model attack paths, oversee risk mitigation across Product Areas, and collaborate with engineers to implement scalable security controls.

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.
• 1 year of experience leading teams in a technical capacity or leading technical risk analysis in an enterprise environment.

Responsibilities

• Identify security issues and implement and design security controls, tools, and services to improve security systems and processes.
• Drive the strategy for PRISM's core pillars by identifying emerging access risks and designing technical solutions to mitigate them at scale.
• Architect and evolve security risk mitigation systems to enable continuous, automated assessment and remediation across Google's infrastructure.
• Serve as a technical consultant for complex security issues, guiding teams across Product Areas (PAs) to implement security invariant.
• Contribute to and lead technical execution for the Internal Access Control (INTACT) program suite, including Privilege Access Management (PAM), Model Oversight, Access-Control and Tooling (MOAT), and Infrastructure Existential Threats (IET).

Skills

Security assessments

Security design reviews

Threat modeling

Security engineering

Security protocols

Coding experience

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Google seeks a Senior Security Engineer for the PRISM team in New York to strengthen internal access controls and reduce production infrastructure abuse. The role bridges security research with hands-on engineering, focusing on secure-by-default solutions for Google's critical infrastructure.

You will model attack paths, oversee risk mitigation across Product Areas, and collaborate with engineers to implement scalable security controls.