Security Engineer, Cloud Enterprise Infrastructure Protection

Note: Google’s hybrid workplace includes remote and in-office roles. By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:

In-office locations: Kirkland, WA, USA; Austin, TX, USA.
Remote location(s): United States.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience

• 5 years of relevant experience in security.

• Experience with attacks and mitigation methods and two or more in the following: operating system internals and hardening, security network design and protocols, and security assessments.

• Experience coding in one general purpose languages.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience in developing security tools, automation, or frameworks.
• Knowledge of techniques, standards, and state-of-the-art capabilities for authentication, authorization, and use of cryptographic systems.

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 hands-on 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 Enterprise Infrastructure Protection (EIP) Security team is a global engineering team, helping Googlers design, build, and use cloud infrastructure securely at scale. Security Engineers work on a broad set of efforts focusing on scaling and automating security infrastructure and processes. We contribute to open-source security software, conduct applied research, and implement novel technologies and architecture to deal with enterprise security across a diversity of computing platforms. Within Enterprise Infrastructure Protection, our EIP-Cloud team focuses on the security challenges unique to building on top of cloud computing.

Examples include establishing and enforcing perimeters to protect all of Google’s environments, defending a diverse set of clients, authentication, access, servers, and cloud services as well as influencing policy to simplify user experience and keep Google safe.

Additional Information
(Colorado only*) Salary range of $142,000 - $153,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.
*Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085 (8-5-20) of the minimum salary compensation for this role when being hired into our offices in Colorado.

Responsibilities

• Design infrastructure and drive its implementation to protect Google networks and systems.
• Provide security expertise and guidance to a diverse set of Google engineering and business teams.
• Conduct security reviews of core corporate and production infrastructure.
• Drive enterprise-focused security improvements to Google products and services.
• Build security tools and processes using Python or Go for critical infrastructure protection, monitoring, and remediation.

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.