Senior Security Engineer, Digital Forensics

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Perform investigations on a wide variety of security and privacy events from various sources to determine whether they pose a risk to Google.
• Participate in large-scale security and privacy incidents, write incident reports, and participate in post-mortems.
• Work with teams from around Google to discover new investigative and forensics capabilities.
• Develop internal and Open Source tools used to respond to incidents (e.g., digital forensic toolkits) to support Google’s unique environment.

Requirements

• 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.
• 4 years of practical experience with digital forensic analysis.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with the current threat landscape including common attack types and malware capabilities.
• Experience with security of two or more operating systems e.g. Android, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows.
• Experience with, and detailed understanding of, digital forensics and incident response tools such as GRR, Plaso (log2timeline), The Sleuth Kit (TSK), libyal, or alternatives like Guidance Encase, AccessData FTK, X-Ways Forensics, Cellebrite, Crowdstrike Falcon, Volatility, Mandiant MIR, etc.
• Experience with reverse engineering or firmware analysis.

Skills

Enthusiastic about information security, privacy, and technology, and wanting to help keep the world safe.

Benefits

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

Pay

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD)

Schedule

N/A