Senior Security Engineer, OCONUS, Google Pub Sector

Cybersecurity Jobs; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

15% bonus target

Equity

Benefits

US salary range: $174,000 - $252,000

Job summary

Google’s Security team is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to advance security across federal-focused products and services. You will collaborate with researchers, developers, and operators to detect intrusions and strengthen defenses at both system and application levels.

The role emphasizes building automated evaluation pipelines, Terraform modules, and zero-trust baselines, while leveraging Generative AI to improve security testing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.
• 5 years of experience in cloud security, application security, security engineering, computer and network security, or security protocols.
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with current polygraph.
• Ability to travel internationally up to 25% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Identify security issues and design, implement, and improve security controls, tools, and services to strengthen security systems and processes.
• Embed end-to-end security guardrails into the SDLC by building automated evaluation pipelines, custom linting, and continuous validation tools for high-assurance code deployment.
• Architect, build, and maintain production-ready Terraform modules and deployment blueprints that scale platform capabilities while enforcing zero-trust baseline configurations.
• Use Generative AI technologies to automate complex security testing, surface edge-case vulnerabilities, and identify emerging attack vectors beyond conventional scan coverage.
• Establish, monitor, and enforce technical security policies and configuration baselines across distributed multi-tenant and air-gapped cloud environments.

Skills

5 years coding experience

5 years cloud security

Top Secret/SCI clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Generative AI

SDLC

Job description

Google’s Security team is responsible for creating and maintaining a secure operating environment for users and developers. This Senior Security Engineer role within Google Public Sector supports research and development efforts for federal agencies, partnering across teams to monitor for attacks and intrusions and to strengthen defenses at the system and application levels.

What you’ll do

• Identify security issues and design, implement, and improve security controls, tools, and services to strengthen security systems and processes.
• Embed end-to-end security guardrails into the SDLC by building automated evaluation pipelines, custom linting, and continuous validation tools for high-assurance code deployment.
• Architect, build, and maintain production-ready Terraform modules and deployment blueprints that scale platform capabilities while enforcing zero-trust baseline configurations.
• Use Generative AI technologies to automate complex security testing, surface edge-case vulnerabilities, and identify emerging attack vectors beyond conventional scan coverage.
• Establish, monitor, and enforce technical security policies and configuration baselines across distributed multi-tenant and air-gapped cloud environments.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.
• 5 years of experience in cloud security, application security, security engineering, computer and network security, or security protocols.
• Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance with current polygraph.
• Ability to travel internationally up to 25% of the time.

Technology focus

• Terraform
• Generative AI
• SDLC

Benefits

• 15% bonus target
• equity
• benefits
• US salary range: $174,000 - $252,000 (USD)

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with mobile device management.

This position is based in Reston, VA and is listed as onsite. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.