Senior Staff Software Engineer, Reliability and Application Security, Cloud Security

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, a related

technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

* 8 years of experience in security engineering with a focus on application

security, or software development architecting, operating, or scaling

large-scale distributed systems, enterprise platforms, or cloud

infrastructure.

* 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.

* 3 years of experience in a technical leadership or tech lead role setting

strategy for security programs, reliability initiatives, or large-scale

systems, and driving cross-team execution.

* Experience with application security vulnerabilities, secure coding

practices, and mitigation techniques.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a

related technical field.

* Experience with vulnerability management programs, security tooling, and

automation.

* Experience leading security or reliability efforts for a portfolio of SaaS or

enterprise security products.

* Deep domain expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles,

production systems governance, multi-region disaster recovery, and incident

response frameworks.

* Strong expertise in defining SLOs/SLIs, building observability frameworks,

and scaling operations in fast-growing, mission-critical cloud environments.

ABOUT THE JOB:

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change

how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one

another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend

well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from

all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale

system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence,

natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is

growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project

critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as

you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be

versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new

problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and

deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance

software solutions.

To lead and evolve both the application security posture and horizontal

reliability of the entire Google Unified Security Operations (SecOps) and Threat

Operations product portfolio.

In this role, you will

• own the technical goal,
• strategy, and execution of the Application Security Program and horizontal
• reliability initiatives, empowering Google Unified SecOps and Threat Operations
• teams to build, scale, and maintain secure-by-design, resilient products, and
• fostering unwavering customer trust in Google's security intelligence and
• operations platforms.
• 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: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits
• Learn more about benefits at Google
• [https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].
• RESPONSIBILITIES:
• * Drive the technical goal, strategy, and multi-year roadmap across the Google
• Unified SecOps and Threat Operations portfolio.
• * Elevate standards for incident management, risk analysis, architecture
• reviews, blameless postmortems, and sustainable, healthy on-call rotations.
• * Serve as the ultimate technical decision-maker and escalation point for all
• reliability, production health, and application security matters within
• Google Unified SecOps and Threat Operations.
• * Act as the primary development liaison to the Google Unified SecOps and
• Threat Operations SRE organization; drive consensus across disparate software
• engineering and platform teams, acting as a neutral arbiter on complex
• architectural and operational decisions across Google Cloud Security.
• * Serve as a trusted technical authority on complex, distributed systems
• architectures; identify critical failure modes in real-time streaming, batch
• processing, and AI/ML-driven threat operations, guiding engineering teams
• toward resilient, self-healing designs.