Senior Staff Software Engineer, Reliability and Application Security, Cloud Security

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

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: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA.

Minimum 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.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience with vulnerability management programs, security tooling, and automation.
• Experience leading security or reliability efforts for a portfolio of SaaS or enterprise security products.
• Deep domain expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, production systems governance, multi-region disaster recovery, and incident response frameworks.
• Strong expertise in defining SLOs/SLIs, building observability frameworks, and scaling operations in fast-growing, mission-critical cloud environments.

About The Job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

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

To lead and evolve both the application security posture and horizontal reliability of the entire Google Unified Security Operations (SecOps) and Threat Operations product portfolio. In this role, you will own the technical goal, strategy, and execution of the Application Security Program and horizontal reliability initiatives, empowering Google Unified SecOps and Threat Operations teams to build, scale, and maintain secure-by-design, resilient products, and fostering unwavering customer trust in Google's security intelligence and operations platforms.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge 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

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• 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, healthy on-call rotations.
• Serve as the ultimate technical decision-maker and escalation point for all reliability, production health, and application security matters within Google Unified SecOps and Threat Operations.
• Act as the primary development liaison to the Google Unified SecOps and Threat Operations SRE organization; drive consensus across disparate software engineering and platform teams, acting as a neutral arbiter on complex architectural and operational decisions across Google Cloud Security.
• Serve as a trusted technical authority on complex, distributed systems architectures; identify critical failure modes in real-time streaming, batch processing, and AI/ML-driven threat operations, guiding engineering teams toward resilient, self-healing designs.

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 .