Senior Staff Security Architect, Distributed Cloud

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401(k) with match

PTO 20 days

Sick time 40h/year

Maternity Leave

Baby Bonding Leave

Holidays 13 days

Job summary

Google LLC's Security team seeks a Staff Security Engineer to embed security expertise across the product lifecycle for Google Distributed Cloud (GDC). You will lead security architecture, threat modeling, and design reviews, ensuring a strong security-by-design posture from inception through deployment.

You will partner with engineering, SRE, and product teams to establish security standards, drive long-term strategy, and mentor junior engineers while protecting customer data and Google IP

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of security engineering and security protocol experience.
• 10 years of security assessments, design reviews, or threat modeling.
• 10 years of coding in general-purpose languages.
• Experience working on Linux internals.
• Experience managing Kubernetes environments and containerized apps.

Responsibilities

• Lead security architecture and design reviews for GDC products.
• Drive long-term security strategy for large-scale systems.
• Partner with engineering, SRE, and product teams on security standards.
• Lead incident response and root-cause analyses.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the team.

Skills

Security engineering

Threat modeling

Security reviews

Linux internals

Kubernetes

Containerized apps

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud security

Job description

Google LLC's Security team seeks a Staff Security Engineer to embed security expertise across the product lifecycle for Google Distributed Cloud (GDC). You will lead security architecture, threat modeling, and design reviews, ensuring a strong security-by-design posture from inception through deployment.

You will partner with engineering, SRE, and product teams to establish security standards, drive long-term strategy, and mentor junior engineers while protecting customer data and Google IP