Google

Senior Software Engineer, AI-Empowered Security, Cloud CISO

Google$174K — $253K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years programming experience in Python or C.
  • 3 years testing and launching software products; 1 year in software design.
  • 2 years in security engineering focusing on infrastructure and secure SDLC.
  • 1 year experience with AI/ML infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and scale robust, secure platforms for Google Cloud's developer pipeline.
  • Design and evaluate AI-driven security capabilities within CCSE.
  • Establish engineering and security standards for distributed systems.
  • Analyze technical and security data to inform organizational decisions.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers toward leadership roles.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match
  • 20 days of vacation, accruing at 6.15 hours per pay period for first five years
  • 40 hours of sick time/year (69 hours/year for Seattle), including 5 discretionary days
  • 28-30 weeks maternity leave for short-term disability baby bonding
  • 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
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; New York, NY, USA.

Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience programming in Python or C .
  • 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
  • 2 years of experience in security engineering, with a focus on infrastructure security, secure software development lifecycle (SDLC), threat modeling, or automated vulnerability discovery.
  • 1 year of experience with AI/ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging).
  • Experience with designing and evaluating AI-assisted tools or automation workflows to drive engineering efficiency.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  • 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
  • 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
  • Experience designing, optimizing, or evaluating Generative AI solutions, LLM-based applications, or multi-agent orchestration systems.
  • Experience synthesizing large-scale telemetry, security data, or system logs to identify systemic gaps and drive organizational objectives.
  • Proficiency in the security assessment and design of global-scale distributed systems, with experience implementing end-to-end security controls (e.g., secure SDLC, automated vulnerability discovery, or threat analysis).


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.

The Cloud CISO Security Engineering (CCSE) team builds the systems that keep Google Cloud secure. At Google's scale, our security approach requires constant innovation to keep all our customers safe. Our team utilizes the latest AI advances to ensure cloud products meet the highest security standards, discover novel vulnerabilities across billions of lines of code, and automate fixing issues before they reach production. We are transforming security into a seamless, automated part of every Google Cloud developer's workflow.

Responsibilities
  • Architect and scale robust, secure platforms that automate security checks across Google Cloud's developer pipeline and production systems.
  • Design, optimize, and evaluate AI-driven security capabilities, leading the identification of AI opportunities across CCSE; including coding.
  • Establish engineering and security standards for large-scale distributed systems, ensuring robust end-to-end security.
  • Analyze and distill complex technical and security data to drive key organizational decisions and roadmap prioritization.
  • Provide technical leadership for multiple teams, vet system designs, and mentor executive engineers to help them grow into technical leaders.


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

US: $174000 - $253000 (USD) 15% bonus target bonus equity benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

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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