Senior Software Engineer Search Security & Threat Detection

Google LLC; Mountain View, Palo Alto, Cambridge (CA, CA, MA); Hybrid; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health/dental/vision

401(k)

Paid time off

Sick time

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Holidays

Job summary

Google LLC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Search Security Engineering based in Mountain View, CA, with opportunities across Cambridge, MA, New York, NY, and Seattle. The role focuses on building security- and abuse-fighting software within the Search infrastructure, delivering threat detection and privacy-preserving features.

You'll collaborate with security analysts, own critical components, and contribute to scalable systems that protect users while enabling rapid innovation.

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.

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.

Skills

Programming languages

Security/anti-abuse

Data privacy

Software testing

Software design

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science

Job description

Google LLC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Search Security Engineering based in Mountain View, CA, with opportunities across Cambridge, MA, New York, NY, and Seattle. The role focuses on building security- and abuse-fighting software within the Search infrastructure, delivering threat detection and privacy-preserving features.

You'll collaborate with security analysts, own critical components, and contribute to scalable systems that protect users while enabling rapid innovation.