Senior Security Engineer, Network Security Engineering

About the role

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.

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.

Qualifications

• 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).

Pay

$174,000 - $253,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Schedule

Not specified

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year