Software Engineer III, Security Endpoint Agents, Core

2 Weeks ago • 2 Years + • Cyber Security

Job Summary

Job Description

This role focuses on enhancing Alphabet's security posture by empowering security teams to effectively observe, protect, and respond in any environment. The Core team develops foundational security agents, maintaining stringent reliability and performance standards. Key responsibilities include building and maintaining low-level security agents, managing the telemetry agent's eBPF functionality, and developing a data collection pipeline for aggregating security-relevant data. The ideal candidate possesses strong C++ or Rust programming skills, experience with data structures and algorithms, and a passion for improving Google's security infrastructure. The position offers opportunities to work on critical projects impacting billions of users and contribute to the evolution of Google's security technologies.
Must have:
  • C++ or Rust experience
  • Data structures/algorithms expertise
  • Low-level/systems programming
  • Build/maintain security agents
  • eBPF functionality maintenance
  • Data collection pipeline development
Good to have:
  • Experience with Rust and C++ codebases
  • Telemetry agent eBPF experience
  • Building data collection pipelines for security data

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience with software development in C++ or Rust, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
  • 2 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience working in Rust and C++ codebases. Low-level or systems programming experience.
  • Experience maintaining telemetry agent's eBPF based functionality.
  • Experience building and maintaining data collection pipeline for aggregating security relevant data.

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

In this role, you will be working on improving Alphabet's security posture by enabling security teams to better observe, protect and respond in any environment.

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.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain low-level security agents with stringent reliability and performance requirements.
  • Maintain telemetry agent's Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) based functionality.
  • Build and maintain a data collection pipeline for aggregating security relevant data.

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