Principal Engineer, Federated Security Google Cloud

2 Days ago • 15 Years + • Cyber Security

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Job Description

As a Principal Engineer, Security, you'll own the security of your assigned product portfolio, focusing on delivering security enhancements and future-focused capabilities. The core success metric is reducing security risks for customers. You'll drive major technical strategies impacting multiple product areas. Responsibilities include developing security and privacy infrastructure, anticipating and addressing challenging technical problems, directing complex workstreams, analyzing the risk landscape, and identifying root causes of security flaws. You will provide guidance to teams on threat modeling, navigating cross-cloud environments, and addressing vulnerabilities across diverse software stacks. You'll build relationships within and outside the Google Cloud Platform team.
Must have:
  • 15+ years software engineering experience
  • Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent
  • Secure cloud service design expertise
  • Threat modeling and protocol design
  • Strong problem-solving and solution building skills
  • Excellent communication skills
Good to have:
  • GenAI security and compliance knowledge
  • Hybrid/multi-cloud security experience
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits
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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 15 years of experience in software engineering.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience designing secure cloud services, including threat modeling and protocol design.
  • Strong software background, security knowledge and proven expertise in problem abstraction, identification of gaps, building long-term solutions and delivering high-visibility improvements.
  • Familiarity with security and compliance issues arising in the newly emerging space of GenAI based tools and applications.
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with diverse teams across different disciplines and organizations.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to effectively convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Proven expertise in addressing unique security challenges in hybrid, multi-cloud environments.

About the job

As a Principal Engineer, Security, you'll own the security of your assigned product portfolio ensuring it enables sustainable business success, with particular focus on delivering security enhancements and future-focused capabilities.

The core measure of success for the role is removal of security risk for broad classes of customers. Building optional/premium security features may form part of the role, but is not the main focus. You will drive major technical, product, or business strategies that have impact beyond adjacent teams, across multiple product areas and common infrastructure, and in partnership with your Cloud Security Lead peers and Cloud CISO. You'll contribute to the development and delivery of security and privacy infrastructure to protect Google networks, systems, and customer data. You will drive forward-thinking and innovative approaches to anticipate and address some of Google's most challenging/deepest or new technical problems and develop solutions where precedent may not exist and the best option may not be clear.

In addition, you'll direct multiple complex workstreams with competing priorities and influence the organization to drive alignment of different strategies in line with operational goals, objectives, product vision, and security roadmap. You'll analyze the risk landscape based on data and strategic industry trends, identify common root-causes for security flaws and vulnerabilities, anticipate patterns over a multi-year horizon, brainstorm/socialize ideas and collaborate in yearly planning, solutioning, designing, and co-implementing a systemic engineering fix to these issues.

Google Cloud has multiple Principal Engineers, Security roles across Applications Ecosystem, Applied AI, Business Platforms, Cloud AI, Compute & ML, Data & Analytics, Databases, Developer Experiences, Google Distributed Cloud, Networking, Runtimes, Security, and Storage.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $278,000-$399,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. 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

  • Provide guidance to teams on authoring and maintaining the threat model of their components/services and coming up with recommendations on addressing potential vulnerabilities.
  • Provide team wide guidance on how to navigate cross-cloud environments.
  • Navigate heterogeneity -- OSS vs. proprietary software stacks with a mix of multi-single-tenant vs. multi-tenant systems.
  • Build strong relationships and trust both inside DnA and outside with the broader Google Cloud Platform team, through a combination of humility, empathy, and demonstrated technical expertise. Guide and enable others.
  • Articulate journey with respect to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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$278.0K - $399.0K/yr (Outscal est.)
$338.5K/yr avg.
Worldwide

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