Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security, Service Hardening

1 Month ago • 2-4 Years • Cyber Security • $141,000 PA - $202,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security, Service Hardening role at Google involves developing and maintaining security best practices for infrastructure applications. Responsibilities include identifying and remediating security issues in infrastructure applications and AI services, discovering security vulnerabilities, performing security assessments at scale, and developing security automation tooling. This role requires expertise in security assessments, threat modeling, and coding. The engineer will work directly with network equipment, monitor systems for attacks, and collaborate with software engineers to fix security flaws. The ideal candidate will own and drive the resolution of complex security incidents and technical issues.

Must have:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
2 years coding experience
2 years security assessment/design review/threat modeling experience
Perform risk and security assessments
Create security best practices
Automate security assessments

Good to have:

Experience with multiple security domains
Experience with third-party platforms

Perks:

Bonus
Equity
Benefits

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Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

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

Preferred qualifications:

Experience with multiple security domains.
Experience with third-party platforms.

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 support via developing and maintaining security best practices for client usage of infrastructure applications, identifying and remediating security issues in infrastructure applications and AI services, discovering security vulnerabilities, performing security assessments at scale to identify and remediate known security issues, and developing security automation tooling and platforms to make service hardening data available to all service owners at Google.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $141,000-$202,000 + 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 risk, security assessments of infrastructure services.
Create security best practices.
Automate security assessments through the development of Security signals and rules.
Design new features for the assessment automation platform.