Staff Security Engineer, Product Security Engineering, Cloud CISO

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

Paid time off

Sick time

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Paid holidays

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking a Security Engineer to join the Cloud CISO Security Engineering team. You will protect network boundaries, harden systems, perform security assessments, code reviews, and vulnerability testing with a focus on secure by design and by default practices.

You will own incident resolution, policy questions, and collaborating with product teams to raise security standards across our software and infrastructure. Equal opportunity employer.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with security assessments, threat modeling, or security design reviews.
• 8 years in security engineering and network security, and security protocols.
• 5 years coding in general-purpose languages.
• 3 years leading technical teams or risk analysis in enterprises.

Responsibilities

• Perform security reviews, research and reproduce vulnerabilities, design secure protocols and systems, and write tests and fuzzers.
• Review and develop secure operational practices, and provide security guidance for engineers and support staff.
• Review designs and look for vulnerabilities, with one-time reviews and long-term engagements using techniques like reverse engineering, fuzzing, and static analysis.
• Respond to vulnerabilities with repos, mitigations, and hardening; surface vulnerability patterns and design them out.
• Focus on the security strategy for Google Cloud and scalable solutions, and the ability to influence cross-organizationally.

Skills

Security assessments

Threat modeling

Security design reviews

Security engineering

Network security

Security protocols

Coding experience

Technical leadership

Risk analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

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

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with security assessments or security design reviews or threat modeling.
• 8 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.
• 3 years of experience leading teams in a technical capacity or leading technical risk analysis in an enterprise environment.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience applying AI/ML to solve complex security problems.
• Ability to influence and engage with cross-functional teams and executive stakeholders, driving alignment and achieving results.
• Exceptional communication and people management skills with proven ability to take initiative and build strong, productive relationships externally and internally.

About The Job

There's no such thing as a "safe system" - only safer systems. Our Security team works to create and maintain the safest operating environment for Google's users and developers. As a Security Engineer, you help protect network boundaries, keep computer systems and network devices hardened against attacks and provide security services to protect highly sensitive data like passwords and customer information. Security Engineers work directly with network equipment and actively monitor our systems for attacks and intrusions. You also work with software engineers to proactively identify and fix security flaws and vulnerabilities.

You use your industry experience to own and drive the resolution of complex security incidents, policy questions and technical security issues.

The Cloud CISO Security Engineering team within the Cloud CISO organization is responsible for helping ensure every product that 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. In this role, you will help to ensure that our software and systems are designed and implemented to the highest security standards. You will perform technical security assessments, code reviews, and vulnerability testing to highlight risk, helping Google teams and partners to improve security, and work on 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 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

• Perform security reviews, research and reproduce vulnerabilities, design secure protocols and systems, and write tests and fuzzers.
• Review and develop secure operational practices, and provide security guidance for engineers and support staff.
• Review designs and look for vulnerabilities, both with one-time reviews and longer term engagements. Look for vulnerabilities with techniques including reverse engineering, fuzzing, and static analysis.
• Respond to vulnerabilities with repos, mitigations, and hardening. Surface vulnerability patterns and design them out.
• Focus on the security strategy for Google Cloud and scalable solutions, and the ability to influence cross-organizationally.

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.