Senior Staff Engineer - Reliability, App Security & Cloud

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

Job summary

Google's Sunnyvale office seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer focused on Reliability and Application Security within Cloud Security. You will own technical goals, set strategy, and drive cross-team execution for secure-by-design, resilient products.

You will lead incident management, architecture reviews, and on-call rotations while aligning with SRE principles to scale production systems across multi-region deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in security engineering with a focus on application security, or software development architecting, operating, or scaling large-scale distributed systems, enterprise platforms, or cloud infrastructure.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership or tech lead role setting strategy for security programs, reliability initiatives, or large-scale systems, and driving cross-team execution.
• 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 sustainable on-call rotations.
• Serve as the ultimate technical decision-maker and escalation point for all reliability, production health, and application security matters.
• Act as the primary development liaison to the SRE organization; drive consensus across software engineering and platform teams.
• Guide engineering teams toward resilient, self-healing designs in distributed systems architectures.

Skills

Security engineering

Data structures & algorithms

Technical leadership

Application security vulnerabilities

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Security tooling

Automation

Job description

Google's Sunnyvale office seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer focused on Reliability and Application Security within Cloud Security. You will own technical goals, set strategy, and drive cross-team execution for secure-by-design, resilient products.

You will lead incident management, architecture reviews, and on-call rotations while aligning with SRE principles to scale production systems across multi-region deployments.