Senior Software Engineer, Search Security Engineering

Google; New York (NY); 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 (20 days/year)

Sick time (40 hours/year)

Maternity leave (28-30 weeks)

Baby bonding leave (18 weeks)

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Google LLC is seeking a software engineer for roles spanning security, threat intelligence, and data privacy. You will work across the full stack on high-scale systems, with opportunities to lead designs and teams as you grow. The position emphasizes collaboration with Trust and Safety and incident-response partners.

Responsibilities include code development, reviews, and contributing to docs. The role notes in-person interviews and diverse benefit offerings across eligible US employees.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of software development experience.
• 5 years in security/anti-abuse software.
• 3 years in data privacy/security software.
• 3 years testing, maintaining, or launching software.
• 1 year in design/architecture.

Responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders.
• Review code and provide feedback on best practices.
• Contribute to documentation and education content.
• Triarge product or system issues and debug/resolve.

Skills

Software development

Security software

Data privacy

Software testing

Software design & architecture

Algorithms

Technical leadership

Threat detection

Abuse disruption

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in CS or related field

Job description

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:

Mountain View, CA, USA; Cambridge, MA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Seattle, WA, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 5 years of experience building software for security or anti-abuse (e.g., threat detection, threat intelligence, or fraud prevention systems).
• 3 years of experience building software for data privacy or security (e.g., identity and access management).
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products.
• 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Experience building threat intelligence or detection systems that correlate signals at scale to identify adversary infrastructure, campaigns, and techniques.
• Experience investigating and disrupting scaled abuse (e.g., spam, scams, phishing, coordinated manipulation), including attribution.
• Experience partnering with Trust and Safety, security, or incident response teams, and briefing leadership on threats.

About The Job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

You will partner closely with engineering analysts who track, understand, and contextualize security challenges and threats across the internet to enable investigations, scale their insights, and build the tooling and infrastructure to underpin threat intelligence efforts.

In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .