Google

Staff Software Engineer, Detection and Response Platform

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

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of programming experience in C or Go.
  • 5 years of experience in software product design, architecture, and testing/launching.
  • Experience in architecting and developing large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience with distributed data processing systems like Spanner or BigQuery.
  • Experience in developing generative AI agents or large language model applications.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership for a major data ingestion and processing platform at Alphabet.
  • Drive latency reduction and improve service level objectives through automation.
  • Provide oversight and guidance to engineering teams.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support the Detection and Response Platform organization.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Flexible work environment and options for remote work.
  • Professional development opportunities.
  • Generous vacation and leave policies.
  • Equity options and performance-related bonuses.
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Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience programming in C or Go.
  • 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
  • Experience architecting, designing, and developing large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience designing or deploying distributed data processing systems (e.g., Spanner, BigQuery, Cassandra, PostgreSQL).
  • Experience designing, developing, and deploying generative AI agents or large language model (LLM) applications

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
  • 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
  • 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
  • Experience building data infrastructure.
  • Experience building AI agents.


About the job

The Detection and Response Platform Organization, builds systems and products to enable Security Engineers to prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to security threats in Google's environments. Our adversaries are tireless, so we need creative software engineers who are passionate about security to join us to build our detection and response capabilities for Google, Alphabet, and the world.

Our tools are Google's last line of defense against intruders, many of whom are sophisticated and try to evade detection. We must keep ahead by building flexible systems for the long-term and by thinking of gaps in our threat model before our adversaries think of them.

Our goal is to make security controls unobtrusive and broadly available.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google's flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google's products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.
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

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Responsibilities
  • Provide technical leadership for one of the largest data ingestion and processing platforms at Alphabet.
  • Drive latency reduction, improve service level objectives (SLOs), reduce manual intervention through automation, and integrate agents where needed.
  • Provide oversight and guidance to executive engineers.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to serve the Detection and Response Platform organization.


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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$40.2 billion
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1998
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$182.5 billion
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