Distinguished Engineer, Obligation Response

2 Days ago • 15-30 Years • Cyber Security • $349,000 PA - $485,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

This Distinguished Engineer role focuses on Google's Obligation Response to emerging regulations and compliance objectives. You'll collaborate with internal teams and product areas, interface with executives, and own risk. Responsibilities include driving consensus-based improvements in regulatory response, designing and influencing technology for compliance, and working with partners to set and drive the regulatory response roadmap. You'll build and lead teams, finding innovative solutions to balance the speed of delivery with evolving threats. The role requires strong technical leadership, regulatory expertise, and collaboration skills to ensure Google's compliance with high-visibility regulations.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree in CS or related field
  • 15+ years software engineering experience
  • 15+ years leading technical teams/risk analysis
  • Experience with regulatory compliance
  • Strong collaboration and leadership skills
Good to have:
  • Master's or PhD in relevant field
  • 10+ years in information security
  • Experience with common controls frameworks
  • Experience negotiating with senior leadership
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Job Details


Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 15 years of professional experience in software engineering.
  • 15 years of experience leading in a technical capacity or leading technical risk analysis in an enterprise environment.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering.
  • 10 years of experience in information security, data privacy, standards, and regulatory compliance.
  • Experience with common controls frameworks; risk assessments, and regulatory review and obligations decomposition; translating regulatory requirements into operational realities.
  • Experience aligning security with business outcomes in a medium-large organization, and in a role negotiating and influencing senior leadership across the organization.
  • Knowledge of security, distributed systems, access controls, usability.
  • Demonstrated success leading technical engineering teams that build and operate security-related services.

About the job

Privacy, Safety, and Security’ (PSS) protects our users, their experiences, and their daily interactions. We aspire to support Google’s mission by protecting the integrity, the uses, and the access of information. We do this because keeping users safe online is our responsibility. We protect users' personal information by safeguarding your data with our advanced security and safety controls, upholding responsible data practices, and keeping users in control of their privacy. Our purpose is to provide trusted experiences to the people who use Google products. We focus on creating integrated solutions by building excellent capabilities into our common frameworks and systems. By making all Google products secure by default, we ensure Google keeps more people and businesses safe online.

In this role you’ll be responsible for driving Google’s Obligation Response to emerging and imminent regulations and compliance objectives in partnership with internal teams and our Google Product Areas. You will interface with executives, act as a risk owner, and be responsible for driving consensus-based improvements in Google’s overall regulatory obligation response. Working collaboratively across the company, you will design and influence the technology and operations that will ensure Google’s compliance with high-visibility regulations. You will work with internal partners to set and drive the regulatory response roadmap for your portfolio of work, inline with the company’s regulatory objectives. The teams you build and run will find innovative ways to deliver on a complex mission, balancing the speed of delivery for the business with an ever-changing threat landscape.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $349,000-$485,000 + 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 .

Responsibilities

  • Work in collaboration with senior leaders across the organization, build and own the technical strategy for managing emerging regulatory-related risk for the company.
  • Resolve escalations where risk and business goals conflict.
  • Go beyond the obvious and devise innovative solutions to solve whole classes of problems.
  • Partner with internal and external entities to drive industry-wide improvements in scalable regulatory technologies, roadmaps, vision, and processes.
  • Build and maintain a safe, collaborative culture in a growing team of privacy, risk, and regulatory response professionals.

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