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Senior Security Engineer, Network Security Engineering

The role involves performing security reviews, vulnerability research, and designing secure protocols to harden systems. You will also collaborate with software engineers to identify and mitigate security flaws across various technology stacks.

Durham, North Carolina, United StatesonsiteFULL_TIME

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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 security testing and pen-testing.

* Experience in Network Security (i.e, network protocols, software-defined

networking (SDN), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), firewalls, or DNS

security).

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. As an information security engineer 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: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google

[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Perform security reviews, research and reproduce vulnerabilities, design

secure protocols and systems, and write tests and fuzzers.

* Review designs and look for vulnerabilities, both with one-time reviews and

longer term engagements.

* Respond to vulnerabilities with repos, mitigations, and hardening. Surface

vulnerability patterns and design them out.

* Review and develop secure operational practices, and provide security

guidance for engineers and support staff.

* Look for vulnerabilities with techniques including reverse engineering,

fuzzing, and static analysis. Architect solutions for scalability.

Which skills does this role require?

Security assessmentsThreat modelingSecurity protocolsCodingTechnical risk analysisSoftware-defined networkingDNS securityVulnerability testingReverse engineeringFuzzingStatic analysisThreat ModelingSecurity AssessmentsSoftware-defined NetworkingDNS SecurityVulnerability TestingReverse EngineeringStatic AnalysisCloud SecurityInfrastructure SecurityRisk AnalysisSecurity ProtocolsGoogle CloudHardeningCode ReviewScalabilityGCP

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