Google

Senior Security Engineer, Trust and Safety, Cloud, Workspace

Google$174K — $252K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 5 years in security assessments, design reviews, or threat modeling
  • 5 years in security engineering, including networking and protocols
  • 5 years of software coding in general-purpose languages
  • 1 year of experience in a technical team leadership role

Responsibilities

  • Drive technical strategy and threat modeling for Workspace account security
  • Lead vulnerability research and simulate adversarial attacks
  • Design and build automated systems for threat detection and mitigation
  • Architect customer-facing tools for proactive security management
  • Investigate and respond to high-severity account security incidents

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match
  • 20 days of paid vacation per year
  • 40 hours of sick time per year, increasing to 69 for Seattle
  • 28-30 weeks of maternity leave
  • 18 weeks of baby bonding leave
  • 13 paid holidays per year
Full Job Description
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X 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.
  • 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.

Preferred qualifications:
  • 5 years of experience in security engineering, threat modeling, and application security.
  • Deep expertise in account security mechanisms, identity and access management (IAM), and modern authentication standards (e.g., OAuth 2.0, OIDC, FIDO/Passkeys, SAML).
  • Demonstrated experience building or deploying AI agents, LLMs, or agentic workflows for security automation, threat detection, or user-facing product features.
  • Proven track record of identifying novel security vulnerabilities (e.g., threat research, bug bounties, security advisories) and implementing systemic engineering fixes.


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.

As a Senior Security Engineer within the Workspace Account Security and Integrity team, you will drive the technical strategy to defend Workspace accounts and protect the Google Workspace and Cloud customers against advanced and evolving threats. Operating at the frontier of account security, adversarial analysis, and agentic AI, you will lead in-depth searchs into account vulnerabilities and pioneer the next generation of automated defense tools.

In this role, you will not only identify and patch critical vulnerabilities but also architect novel, customer-facing agentic systems that empower Google Workspace and Cloud customers to defend their own environments. You will provide strong technical leadership, collaborate closely with product engineering and threat intelligence teams, and mentor junior engineers to scale the defensive capabilities.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) 15% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Drive the technical strategy and threat modeling for Workspace account security, identifying systemic weaknesses in authentication, recovery, and API integration paths.
  • Lead vulnerability research and adversarial simulation to expose novel account takeover (ATO) and Made for Abuse (MFA) techniques.
  • Design and build advanced agentic systems, debugging tools, and simulators to autonomously detect, analyze, and mitigate complex account security threats.
  • Architect and deploy customer-facing agentic tools that empower Workspace and Google Cloud customers to proactively monitor and secure their own environments.
  • Lead the investigation of high-severity account security incidents, developing long-term mitigations and patches in collaboration with product engineering teams.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
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$182.5 billion
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