Security Engineer, Detection

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of experience with security assessments or security design reviews or threat modeling.
• 1 year of coding experience in Python, Go, C/C++, or Java.
• Experience with security engineering, computer and network security and security protocols.

Preferred qualifications:

• 2 years of experience in responding to security problems, looking at security alerts, front-line analysis and response.
• Experience with signals development, threat hunting, threat modeling.
• Experience in analysis of large data sets and intrusion detection systems.

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.

In this role, you will build detection mechanisms for attacker techniques tactics and procedures, develop systems to automate remediation, conduct threat hunting, and perform network and systems forensics, as well as malware and indicator analysis. We are responsible for managing all malicious activity on Google's networks. We perform analysis of threats on our corporate, production, and acquisition environments. We hunt for and help respond to advanced (APT) attackers and insider threats. Our goal is to build a fully automated detection and response machine, an automated Security Operation Center (SOC).

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $118,000-$170,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Participate in global operation that hunts for and responds to security events on Google's networks.
• Participate in large-scale security incidents and perform investigations on a wide variety of events from various sources to determine whether they pose a threat to Google.
• Work with teams to discover new detection capabilities and logging sources.
• Create and develop new novel detection for different attacker techniques.
• Create and develop new tooling to enable scaling of detection capabilities.