Senior Threat Intelligence & Malware Research Engineer

Google; Georgia; Remote; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus target

Job summary

Google Security Engineering team seeks a skilled analyst to advance threat research and build robust defenses for Google Cloud, working with software and security teams to proactively identify and mitigate threats.

You will lead research on risk groups, model risk activity, and produce actionable intelligence while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating on innovative exploit mitigations.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Own, prioritize, and drive the tracking of complex, threat actors and associated research projects.
• Lead complex technical analyses, modeling threat activity, tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and indicators of compromise (IOCs) across internal platforms (mGraph).
• Create and deploy detection signatures to maintain visibility over threat actors and close security gaps.
• Produce polished, high-quality technical intelligence documentation and actor profiles for stakeholders.
• Influence technical direction, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to support threat disruption.

Skills

Security assessments

Threat modeling

Security engineering

Coding

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

VirusTotal

SIEMs

Job description

Google Security Engineering team seeks a skilled analyst to advance threat research and build robust defenses for Google Cloud, working with software and security teams to proactively identify and mitigate threats.

You will lead research on risk groups, model risk activity, and produce actionable intelligence while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating on innovative exploit mitigations.