About the role
What will you do at Google?
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:
* Experience in building or managing security posture management frameworks
that provide continuous visibility and automated governance over
infrastructure risks.
* Proven expertise in performing complex threat modeling for large-scale
distributed systems and conducting attack path modeling and simulation to
identify non-obvious lateral movement and indirect access risks.
* Technical knowledge of system hardening techniques across various layers (OS,
network, and application) to enforce security invariants and reduce the
attack surface of critical production services.
* Understanding of identity and access management (IAM), mandatory access
control (MAC), principle of least privilege, and zero-trust architectures in
production environments.
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.
PRISM is the central engineering team responsible for the reduction of
Production Infrastructure Access Abuse risks, which is driven through the
collection of INTACT programs, including User Data Protection (UDP), AI Model
Oversight, Access and Tooling (MOAT), Malicious Outages (MalOut) and Trusted
Core Access (TCA).
We are looking for a Security Engineer who is interested in working on security
research and risk mitigation systems, help scope security problems, and
contribute to projects within Privacy, Safety, and Security (PSS) and across
Product Areas (PAs) to transform how Google manages and eliminates internal
access risk.
As a Security Engineer on the PRISM team, you will be at the forefront of
redefining Google’s internal access landscape. You will not just be responding
to risks; you will be anticipating them by building the next-generation taxonomy
of access risk and architecting 'secure-by-default' solutions that protect our
most critical infrastructure. From modeling complex attack paths to securing the
rise of agentic identities, you will lead projects that transform how Google
proactively manages risk at an enterprise scale.
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
Learn more about benefits at Google
[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].
RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Identify security issues and implement and design security controls, tools,
and services to improve security systems and processes.
* Drive the strategy for PRISM’s core pillars by identifying emerging access
risks and designing technical solutions to mitigate them at scale.
* Architect and evolve security risk mitigation systems to enable continuous,
automated assessment and remediation across Google’s infrastructure.
* Serve as a technical consultant for complex security issues, guiding teams
across Product Areas (PAs) to implement security invariant.
* Contribute to and lead technical execution for the Internal Access Control
(INTACT) program suite, including Privilege Access Management (PAM), Model
Oversight, Access-Control andTooling (MOAT), and Infrastructure Existential
Threats (IET).
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