Software Engineer, Security

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., C++).
• 5 years of experience in a security field.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
• Experience with JavaScript Engine, Web Browsers, and Virtual Machines.

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.

With your technical expertise, you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Identify and handle V8's unique security challenges, devising and implementing novel solutions.
• Contribute to long-term architectural projects to improve V8's security posture and its integration with Chrome’s rendering engine.
• Ensure that security-related procedures within Chrome are not only up-to-date and effective but also continuously improved. Handle bug fixes, triage security issues, and participate in the regular V8 workflow.
• Work closely with V8's Technical Leads (TLs) and other relevant teams to determine project priorities and ensure alignment with broader security goals.
• Work closely with existing fuzzing teams to integrate fuzzing results, improve test cases, and ensure comprehensive vulnerability detection within V8.

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