Google

Staff Security Engineer, Product Security Engineering, Cloud CISO

Google$207K — $300K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years in security assessments or design reviews and threat modeling.
  • 8 years in security engineering and computer/network security protocols.
  • 5 years coding in one or more general purpose languages.
  • 3 years leading technical teams or conducting risk analysis in an enterprise environment.

Responsibilities

  • Perform security reviews and reproduce vulnerabilities, designing secure systems.
  • Provide security guidance to engineers and support staff based on operational practice reviews.
  • Conduct vulnerability assessments using techniques like reverse engineering and fuzzing.
  • Respond to vulnerabilities with mitigations and hardening measures, identifying patterns to eliminate risks.
  • Develop and implement security strategies for Google Cloud, influencing cross-organization efforts.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
  • 20 days of paid vacation per year, accruing over time.
  • 40 hours of sick leave per year, increasing to 69 for Seattle employees.
  • 28-30 weeks of maternity leave, with additional bonding leave for 18 weeks.
  • 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: New York, NY, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA.

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

Learn more about benefits at Google .

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.


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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