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.

Enterprise Data Protection (EDP) is an overarching cybersecurity program that delivers holistic security controls across Google's systems and enables the enforcement of consistent security policies on all platforms housing Google’s IP.

EDP develops and delivers native security controls while influencing, integrating, and driving security standards across other teams. We focus on proactive, preventive measures designed to mitigate threats before they occur.

In EDP, you will engineer the next generation of data protection by building infrastructure that safeguards Google’s intellectual property and user data. We deliver reliable, high-scale systems and seamless Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions that balance security with developer usability, ensuring every Googler can work securely and resiliently across the globe.

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.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and implement security solutions to identify, measure, and remediate security gaps in Alphabet's infrastructure using public clouds (e.g., Google Cloud Platform) and on-premise physical networks.

• Review designs for cloud architecture and already deployed infrastructure to perform technical security assessments, develop threat models, provide design feedback, report security findings and provide remediation recommendation.

• Design solutions and develop documentation that ensure Alphabet's infrastructure using public clouds (e.g., Google Cloud Platform), on-premise physical networks, and other third-party hosted software and systems to the security standards.

• Build security tools and processes using Python or Go for critical infrastructure protection, monitoring, and remediation.

Minimum qualifications

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

• 5 years of experience with security in attacks and mitigation methods.

• 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 developing threat models and performing technical security assessments of systems.

• Understanding of networking concepts (e.g., protocols, topologies, encryption).

• Ability to design and develop new security control implementations.