Senior Security Engineer, Trust & Safety Cloud

Google; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

PTO 20 days

Sick time

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Holidays

Job summary

Google is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to defend Workspace accounts and Google Cloud customers against advanced threats. You will drive the technical strategy, conduct adversarial analyses, and lead in-depth investigations to identify and patch security vulnerabilities.

You will architect novel, customer-facing agentic systems and mentor engineers to scale defensive capabilities, collaborating with product engineering and threat intelligence teams.

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

• Drive Technical Strategy and Threat Modeling for Workspace account security, identifying systemic weaknesses in authentication, recovery, and API integration paths.
• Lead vulnerability research and adversarial simulation to expose novel account takeover (ATO) and MFA techniques.
• Build agentic defense systems, debugging tools, and simulators to autonomously detect, analyze, and mitigate complex account security threats.
• Co-Develop Customer-Facing Security Tools: Architect and deploy customer-facing agentic tools that empower Workspace and Google Cloud customers to proactively monitor and secure their own environments.
• Lead Incident Mitigation: Lead the investigation of high-severity account security incidents, developing robust, long-term mitigations and patches in collaboration with product engineering teams.

Skills

Security assessments

Threat modeling

Security design reviews

Security engineering

Security protocols

Coding experience

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Google is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to defend Workspace accounts and Google Cloud customers against advanced threats. You will drive the technical strategy, conduct adversarial analyses, and lead in-depth investigations to identify and patch security vulnerabilities.

You will architect novel, customer-facing agentic systems and mentor engineers to scale defensive capabilities, collaborating with product engineering and threat intelligence teams.