As a Security Engineer, Hardware/Firmware, you'll join Google's Security team in Munich, Germany. You'll play a crucial role in safeguarding the operating environment for Google's users and developers by securing hardware and firmware in production. Your responsibilities will include identifying security issues, implementing and designing security controls, working with platform engineering teams to shape the security of new and changing platforms, designing and engineering necessary security controls for identified risks, developing threat models and security requirements, assessing existing production infrastructure to identify latent and/or systemic issues, and driving remediation efforts to address them. You will collaborate with various teams across Google, including EIP, Platforms, ProdSecLabs, CredInfra, VirtSec, ISE, PSE, and other security organizations, to implement platform security improvements, acceptance tests, firmware, and technical controls.

<p>Check out our career opportunities at goo.gle/3DLEokh</p>

Google

Senior Software Engineering Manager, Infrastructure, Google Cloud Data Management

Web Solutions Engineer, University Graduate, 2025

Security Sales Specialist, Google Public Sector

Data Center Operations Manager, Server Operations (English, Dutch)

Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud

Early Career Software Engineer, Black Community Inclusion

Account Manager, People with Disabilities (English, Portuguese)

Software Engineer, Black Community Inclusion

Software Engineer III, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud

Software Engineer, People with Disabilities

<div jscontroller="iYVHDc" class="DkhPwc" jsname="tIk9qd" data-id="74121911050609350" jsaction="A6AxKc:CXOOvf;"><div class="KwJkGe"><h3>Minimum qualifications:</h3><ul>
<li>Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.<br></li>
<li>2 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.<br></li>
<li>2 years of experience with security assessments, security design reviews, or threat modeling.<br></li>
<li>2 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network security, and security protocols.<br></li>
<li>Experience with both offensive and defensive security methods.<br></li>
</ul><br><h3>Preferred qualifications:</h3><ul>
<li>Experience with OS hardening, specifically Linux or BSD-variants.<br></li>
<li>Experience with low level C/Assembly.<br></li>
<li>Experience working within Kernel Programming, Systems Engineering, Systems Internals, Hardware Programming, Hardware System Architecture.<br></li>
<li>Excellent communication and documentation skills.<br></li>
</ul></div><div class="aG5W3"><h3>About the job</h3><p>Our Security team works to create and maintain the safest operating environment for Google's users and developers. Security Engineers work with network equipment and actively monitor our systems for attacks and intrusions. In this role, you will also work with software engineers to proactively identify and fix security flaws and vulnerabilities.</p>
<p>The team mission is to deliver security of New Product Introduction heading to Google Production. By securing the hardware and firmware in production. We work with a wide range of other teams such as EIP, Platforms, ProdSecLabs, CredInfra, VirtSec, ISE, PSE and other security organizations at Google to design, review, verify and implement platform security improvements, acceptence tests, firmware, and other technical controls.</p><p>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.</p></div><div class="BDNOWe"><h3>Responsibilities</h3><ul>
<li>Identify security issues and implement and design security controls, tools, and services to improve security systems and processes.<br></li>
<li>Work with platform engineering teams to shape the security of new and changing platforms (hardware, firmware).<br></li>
<li>Design and engineer the necessary security controls for identified risks.<br></li>
<li>Develop threat models and security requirements to best understand who/what we need to protect against and how systems should be protected.<br></li>
<li>Assess existing production infrastructure to identify latent and/or systemic issues and drive remediation efforts to address them.<br></li>
</ul></div></div>

Security Engineer, Hardware/Firmware