Senior Staff Security Engineer, Security Engineering, Cloud CISO

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life, and long

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Sick time

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking a Security Engineer to join the Cloud CISO Security Engineering team. You will oversee security assessments, code reviews, and vulnerability testing to help Google teams build more secure products and infrastructure.

You will embed with product teams, design secure protocols, and mentor engineers, contributing to a broad range of stacks. This role offers substantial impact and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years in security engineering and computer/network security.
• 10 years in security assessments or threat modeling or design reviews.
• 10 years coding in general-purpose languages.
• 10 years leading technical teams or risk analysis.

Responsibilities

• Embed within product teams to co-design secure cloud products and infrastructure.
• Review and develop secure development practices for engineers and support staff.
• Perform security reviews, reproduce and remediate vulnerabilities.
• Develop security strategy for Google Cloud Platform products.
• Mentor security engineers and product-team leaders.

Skills

Security engineering

Security assessments / threat modeling

Coding in general-purpose languages

Technical leadership

Security reviews / vulnerability tests

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Kirkland, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network security and security protocols.
• 10 years of experience with security assessments or security design reviews or threat modeling.
• 10 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.
• 10 years of experience leading teams in a technical capacity or leading technical risk analysis in an enterprise environment.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience building and delivering software in a professional setting.
• Experience using AI to solve complex security problems.
• Ability to influence and engage with cross-functional teams and executive stakeholders, driving alignment and achieving results.
• Excellent communication and people management skills with the ability to take initiative and build strong, productive relationships externally and internally.

About the job

Cloud CISO Security Engineering is the team within the Cloud CISO organization responsible for helping ensure every product Cloud ships is as secure as it can be and increasing the assurance levels of security in the infrastructure underlying all our products. This team also focuses on increasing the capabilities of each product team to develop more secure products by design and by default, from patterns, tools and frameworks to increasing the skill level of embedded security leads.

As a security engineer, you will help to ensure that our software and systems are designed and implemented to the highest security standards. You will oversee technical security assessments, code reviews and vulnerability testing to highlight risk, helping Google teams and partners to improve security, and work to secure a wide variety of software designs and technology stacks.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

• Embed within product teams to co-design and co-deliver secure cloud products and infrastructure. Design secure protocols and systems.
• Review and develop secure development practices, and provide security guidance for engineers and support staff.
• Leverage and state of the art techniques to perform security reviews, as well as research, reproduce and remediate vulnerabilities.
• Develop and drive sustainable risk reduction strategies. Develop security strategy for Google Cloud Platform products.
• Mentor security engineers, software engineers in product teams, and technical leaders.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .