Senior Staff Cloud Security & Reliability Architect

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Job summary

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

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of security engineering experience focusing on application security or software architecture for large-scale distributed systems.
• 8 years of data structures and algorithms experience.
• 3 years in technical leadership driving cross-team security or reliability initiatives.
• Experience with application security vulnerabilities, secure coding practices, and mitigation techniques.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical goal, strategy, and multi-year roadmap across the Google Unified SecOps and Threat Operations portfolio.
• Elevate standards for incident management, risk analysis, architecture reviews, blameless postmortems, and healthy on-call rotations.
• Serve as the ultimate technical decision-maker and escalation point for reliability, production health, and application security matters.
• Act as the primary development liaison to the Google Unified SecOps and Threat Operations SRE organization; drive consensus across engineering and platform teams.
• Identify critical failure modes in real-time streaming, batch processing, and AI/ML-driven threat operations, guiding toward resilient, self-healing designs.

Skills

Security experience

Distributed systems

Data structures & algorithms

Technical leadership

Vulnerabilities & secure coding

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/related field

Master's or PhD preferred

Job description

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