Senior Security Engineer, Trust & Safety (Cloud) — Threat Modeling

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Sick time

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Holidays

Job summary

Google seeks a Senior Security Engineer in Kirkland to defend Google Workspace and Cloud customers against advanced threats. You’ll collaborate with product and threat intelligence teams and lead vulnerability research to drive proactive defenses.

You will architect and deploy customer-facing agentic systems that empower customers to monitor and secure their environments, while mentoring junior engineers and advancing threat modeling practices. The role offers equity and comprehensive benefits.

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 the 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.
• Design and build advanced agentic systems, debugging tools, and simulators to autonomously detect, analyze, and mitigate complex account security threats.
• Architect and deploy customer-facing agentic tools that empower Workspace and Google Cloud customers to proactively monitor and secure their own environments.
• Lead the investigation of high‑severity account security incidents, developing long-term mitigations and patches in collaboration with product engineering teams.

Skills

Security assessments

Security design reviews

Threat modeling

Security engineering

Network security

Security protocols

Programming

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Google seeks a Senior Security Engineer in Kirkland to defend Google Workspace and Cloud customers against advanced threats. You’ll collaborate with product and threat intelligence teams and lead vulnerability research to drive proactive defenses.

You will architect and deploy customer-facing agentic systems that empower customers to monitor and secure their environments, while mentoring junior engineers and advancing threat modeling practices. The role offers equity and comprehensive benefits.