Senior Staff Engineer - Cloud Security & SecOps

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement benefits (401(k) with match

Paid time off 20 days/year

Sick time 40 hours/year (+ Seattle 69)

Maternity leave 28-30 weeks

Baby bonding leave 18 weeks

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information. We seek engineers who bring fresh ideas across information retrieval, distributed computing, and security, with opportunities to switch teams as the company grows.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8 years in security engineering with application security or related large-scale systems.
• 8 years with data structures and algorithms.
• 3 years in technical leadership shaping security programs and reliability initiatives.
• Experience with application security vulnerabilities and secure coding practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and evolve the Application Security Program and horizontal reliability initiatives across the Google SecOps portfolio.
• Define goals, strategy, and execution to empower secure-by-design, resilient products.
• Own technical decisions and coordinate across software engineering and platform teams.
• Drive incident management standards, risk analysis, and blameless postmortems.
• Manage priorities, deadlines, and deliverables for security and reliability projects.

Skills

Security engineering

Application security

Distributed systems

Leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Secure coding

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE or equivalent

Master's or PhD (preferred)

Tools

Vulnerability management

Security tooling

Automation tooling

Job description

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information. We seek engineers who bring fresh ideas across information retrieval, distributed computing, and security, with opportunities to switch teams as the company grows.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.