Information Security Engineer, YouTube Main App (Android)

1 Month ago • 8-8 Years • Cyber Security • $197,000 PA - $291,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As an Information Security Engineer at YouTube's Android team, you'll be responsible for securing one of the world's most popular mobile apps. You'll perform Android security reviews, identify and reproduce vulnerabilities, design secure protocols and systems, and develop tests and fuzzers. A key focus will be the overall security strategy for YouTube's native apps. You'll also review and develop secure operational practices, providing security guidance to engineers and support staff. This involves vulnerability research using techniques like reverse engineering, fuzzing, and static analysis. You'll respond to vulnerabilities with remediation, mitigation strategies, and system hardening, aiming to identify and eliminate recurring vulnerability patterns. This role requires close collaboration with Google's Information Security Engineering team within a federated security model.
Must have:
  • 8+ years security assessment/design/threat modeling experience
  • 8+ years coding experience (general-purpose languages)
  • Android security reviews, vulnerability research
  • Secure protocol & system design, testing, fuzzing
Good to have:
  • Mobile app development (Android)
  • Sandboxing, low-level systems, static analysis tool building
  • Open-source experience
  • Knowledge of programming languages, compilers, static/dynamic analysis
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience with security assessments or security design reviews or threat modeling.
  • 8 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience in Mobile App Development and Android Apps.
  • Experience implementing sand-boxing infrastructure or low-level systems features and building static analysis tools, linters or compilers.
  • Experience with open source.
  • Knowledge in programming languages, compilers, static and dynamic analysis techniques.

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.

YouTube owns one of the most popular mobile apps in the world, with billions of users, and has an equally large amount of responsibility to our users. One of those responsibilities is making sure to keep our users safe, and so we have formed a new mobile Security Team for YouTube native apps, tasked with making sure we have the highest levels of security built into our apps. This team works closely with Google Information Security Engineering, using the federated security team model. YouTube will be hiring security experts who will work on mobile security and advise on potential and active security issues. The scope are all 14 Android and iOS apps including YouTube Main, Creator Studio, Kids, YTTV, Producer, and our Embeds SDK.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $197,000-$291,000 + 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

  • Perform Android security reviews, research and reproduce vulnerabilities, design secure protocols and systems, and write tests and fuzzers. Focus on the security strategy for YouTube native apps, overall.
  • Review and develop secure operational practices, and provide security guidance for engineers and support staff.
  • Review designs and look for vulnerabilities, both with one-time reviews and longer term engagements.
  • Look for vulnerabilities with techniques including reverse engineering, fuzzing, and static analysis.
  • Respond to vulnerabilities with repos, mitigations, and hardening. Surface vulnerability patterns and design them out.

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