Staff Security Engineer, Google Distributed Cloud, Federated Security

Google; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

PTO 20 days

Sick time 40 hours

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Holidays 13 days

Bonus target 20%

Job summary

Google Cloud, under the Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) organization, seeks a Security Engineer to lead product security across GDC products. Collaborate with product teams to embed security into the SDLC and drive secure design patterns and tooling.

Role focuses on AI security, security reviews, vulnerability reproduction, and delivering actionable guidance to engineers, while aligning with privacy and engineering teams to reduce risk.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with security assessments, security design reviews, or threat modeling.
• 8 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network security and security protocols.
• 8 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.
• 3 years of experience with Cloud Security.

Responsibilities

• Lead product security as a horizontal domain or product vertical SME.
• Develop a trusted partnership with product team partners to ensure security is built into the SDLC.
• Focus on the holistic security strategy for GDC products.
• Leverage AI tooling to perform SDLC reviews, research and reproduce vulnerabilities, design secure systems.
• Review and develop secure operational practices, and provide security guidance for engineers.

Skills

Security assessments

Security design reviews

Threat modeling

Security engineering

Coding

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Static code analysis tools

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: New York, NY, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with security assessments, security design reviews, or threat modeling.
• 8 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network security and security protocols.
• 8 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.
• 3 years of experience with Cloud Security.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience building, scaling, or deploying machine learning models on enterprise AI platforms.
• Experience scaling security impact using AI native solutions.
• Experience utilizing static code analysis tools to maintain code quality, security, and performance.
• Understanding of hardware architecture, particularly how software interacts with compute accelerators like GPUs or TPUs.
• Ability to implement code automation practices, including CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code.

About The Job

Our Security team works to create and maintain the safest operating environment for Google's users and developers. Security Engineers work with network equipment and actively monitor our systems for attacks and intrusions. In this role, you will also work with software engineers to proactively identify and fix security flaws and vulnerabilities.

GDC Federated Security is the team within the Google Distributed Cloud organization responsible for ensuring every product GDC ships is as secure as it can be and increasing the assurance levels of security in the infrastructure underlying all our products. This team focuses on increasing the capabilities of our product teams to develop more secure products by design and by default, from patterns, tools, and frameworks.

In this role, you have the opportunity to help set the direction for product security across Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) and partner with amazing teams across Google. These include existing security teams, privacy teams and engineering teams. You will be a part of the team that defines the focus, direction, and impact with regards to product security in this organization. There is an exciting mix of work to be accomplished across multiple security domains. A few examples are: product security reviews, AI security, building security tooling, vulnerability research, security data analysis, all with the goal of highlighting and driving down risk.

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: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

• Lead product security as a horizontal domain or product vertical SME.
• Develop a trusted partnership with product team partners to ensure security is built into the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Focus on the holistic security strategy for GDC products.
• Leverage AI tooling to Perform SDLC reviews, research and reproduce vulnerabilities, design secure systems.
• Review and develop secure operational practices, and provide security guidance for engineers. Review designs and look for vulnerabilities, both with one-time reviews and longer term engagements.

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 .