Senior Staff Security Engineer, Distributed Cloud

Google; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life, anddisab

401(k) with company match

20 days vacation per year

Sick time - 40 hours/year

Maternity Leave - 28-30 weeks

Baby Bonding Leave - 18 weeks

13 paid days per year

Job summary

Google Distributed Cloud seeks a Senior Staff Security Engineer to embed security expertise across the product lifecycle, safeguarding customer data and Google IP from hardware to application layers.

You will lead security architecture, threat modeling, incident response, and mentor engineers including executive partners, fostering a security-by-design culture. This role is onsite in Seattle.

Qualifications

• 10 years of security engineering and network security experience.
• 10 years of security assessments, design reviews, or threat modeling.
• 10 years of coding in one or more general-purpose languages.
• Experience working on Linux internals.
• Experience managing Kubernetes environments and containerized apps.

Responsibilities

• Lead security architecture, threat modeling, and design reviews from early stages through deployment.
• Drive long-term security strategy and roadmaps for large-scale distributed systems.
• Partner with engineering, SRE, and product teams to adopt security standards and secure coding patterns.
• Lead complex security incident response efforts and root-cause analyses.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior and executive engineers.

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modeling

Mentorship / leadership

Incident response

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Linux

Containerized applications

IAM

Encryption

DLP

SIEM

Cloud workload protection platforms

Job description

Google Distributed Cloud seeks a Senior Staff Security Engineer to embed security expertise across the product lifecycle, safeguarding customer data and Google IP from hardware to application layers.

You will lead security architecture, threat modeling, incident response, and mentor engineers including executive partners, fostering a security-by-design culture. This role is onsite in Seattle.