About the job

As the Distinguished Engineer for the Product Security team in PSS, you will drive technical excellence for a broad set of Google critical systems and enable the security and privacy of Google products. This includes enabling secure AI development by introducing security controls that don’t impede velocity as well as agentic approaches to these challenges (e.g., red teaming, vulnerability detection, security and privacy reviews). You will help design a multi-year engineering roadmap, balancing short- and long- term goals and investments, to ensure that Google is well positioned to continue to protect users while the overall ecosystem continues to grow in complexity and be disrupted by AI.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $365,000-$505,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Drive the use of agentic AI to solve the most challenging problems in security within Google and beyond. This includes vulnerability detection/remediation, autonomous red teaming, and supply chain security.

• Lead development of roadmaps for well-lit security paths across tech stacks.

• Work with cross-functional security leaders to get alignment on roadmaps and enable execution against those.

• Help lead the execution of security strategy for critical product launches, partnering with the relevant engineering and cross-functional directors and technical leaders.

Minimum qualifications

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

• 15 years of experience working as a technical software engineering leader.

• Experience with securing systems.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science.

• Experience building and deploying large-scale systems for security applications.

• Proven ability to lead and influence in a large, cross-functional environment to drive research from conception to real-world impact.

• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both deeply technical and executive audiences, provide clarity and alignment across the organization on goals, outcomes, and timelines, and encourage engineering excellence and coach the team to uphold it.

• Expertise in the application of AI/ML to cybersecurity challenges.