Senior Security Engineer, Security Research

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• Experience coding in one or more general purpose languages.
  
• Experience in Vulnerability research and exploit development.
  
• Experience in pen testing, offensive security, or red teaming.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
  
• Deep understanding in one or more vulnerability research security fields.
  
• Effective communication and organizational skills.
  
• Track record of strong security research publications.
  

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.

We build tooling to scale security research, and create new methodologies for discovering high impact security vulnerabilities. We also use in-house exploit development to provide relevant and actionable guidance for long-term defenses and mitigations, and engage in non-technical work such as driving improvements to industry security processes and best practices.

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

• Conduct vulnerability research and exploit development.
  
• Create tools and infrastructure that enables the team to scale up our research efforts.
  
• Engage the wider defensive community by publishing results.
  
• Work with other security engineers on the analysis of, and response to vulnerabilities reported by other parties.