Senior Staff Security Engineer, Google Distributed Cloud

Google•Kirkland, WA

13h•$262,000 - $364,000

About The Position

The Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) Security Team works to ensure the security and privacy of GDC connected and air-gapped products. The Senior Staff Security Engineer embeds security expertise throughout the product development lifecycle and manages a wide range of security priorities, continuously assessing systems and designing, developing, deploying, and enhancing security solutions. The role safeguards customer data and Google intellectual property across the full stack, from hardware to the application layer. Google’s Security team works to create and maintain a safe operating environment for users and developers. Security Engineers work with network equipment, monitor systems for attacks and intrusions, and partner with software engineers to proactively identify and fix security flaws and vulnerabilities. Google Cloud provides enterprise-grade solutions and tools to customers in more than 200 countries and territories.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
10 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network security, and security protocols.
10 years of experience with security assessments, security design reviews, or threat modeling.
10 years of coding experience in one or more general-purpose languages.
Experience working on Linux internals.
Experience managing Kubernetes environments, deploying containerized applications, monitoring cluster health, and troubleshooting issues.

Nice To Haves

Experience in hardware security and reverse engineering.
Experience with Security Compliance and Accreditation processes.
Experience with cloud security concepts and technologies, including Identity and Access Management (IAM), encryption, data loss prevention, security information and event management, cloud workload protection platforms, and threat detection/prevention solutions.
Experience in vulnerability management, risk assessment, triage, or remediation.
Experience in designing, implementing, and verifying security controls.

Responsibilities

Lead security architecture, threat modeling, and design reviews for GDC products, ensuring a strong security-by-design posture from inception through deployment.
Drive the long-term security strategy and roadmap for large-scale distributed systems, proactively identifying and mitigating systemic risks and complex architectural vulnerabilities.
Partner across engineering, SRE, and product teams to establish and drive adoption of organization-wide security standards, best practices, and secure coding patterns.
Lead complex security incident response efforts, conduct root-cause analyses, and implement scalable remediation strategies to protect the integrity of GDC infrastructure.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior and executive engineers, fostering a culture of security excellence and continuous improvement across the engineering organization.