Senior Software Engineer, Security and Privacy, Workspace

Google; United States; On-site; USD 174,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Security and Privacy within the Workspace team in Sunnyvale, CA. You will help design and implement large-scale security features across Gmail/Docs/Drive/Meet, and collaborate with DeepMind and other partners to advance AI security capabilities.

The role emphasizes architecture, threat detection, and incident response with a strong emphasis on secure by design products for billions of users.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 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.
• 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.
• Own the improvement, hardening, modernization, and maintenance of critical security mechanisms such as Keystore, RPC Security Policy, BCID, etc.
• Triage and address externally and internally reported vulnerabilities, prioritize and reduce backlog of existing vulnerabilities.

Skills

Software development

Data privacy security

Testing & maintenance

Software design and architecture

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree or PhD in CS

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Security and Privacy, Workspace

Location: Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Experience Level: Mid

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 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.
• Experience in cloud security, security engineering, threat detection, or incident response.

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 developing accessible technologies.
• Experience in AI Security and DevAI or good security fundamentals.

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.

The Gmail Security team is responsible for keeping Gmail users safe (and to a smaller extent, all Workspace users) from security and abuse threats. Our goal is ensuring that users consider Gmail a trustworthy platform where they are encouraged and empowered to communicate without having to worry about threats from malicious actors across the ecosystem.

We accomplish this not just by collaborating with horizontal teams and implementing their top-down security-related guidance and mandates, but also by leveraging our own product-specific domain knowledge to embed security and trust from the ground up. AI will change the future of work in profound ways, and our products- Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Sheets, Vids, and Meet are at the forefront. From pre-computed summaries for email threads, summaries for meetings, and videos created from a document using lifelike AI avatars, our AI opportunity is huge. Our mission is to meaningfully connect people so they can create, build, and grow together and as part of the team you can build how productivity tools should work 5-10 years into the future. You will work with model builders (Google DeepMind), work with exceptional leaders, and have the ability to impact billions of users across the world.

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

US Salary Range: $174,000 - $253,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• 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.
• Own the improvement, hardening, modernization, and maintenance of critical security mechanisms such as Keystore, RPC Security Policy, BCID, etc.
• Triage and address externally and internally reported vulnerabilities, prioritize and reduce backlog of existing vulnerabilities. Partner with teams across workspace to ensure they are fixed before major PR incidents. When possible, strive to fix whole classes of vulnerabilities rather than mitigating a single instance. Improve processes.

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Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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Locations

• Google - Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Experience Level: Mid

Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.