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Software Engineer, Security at Google

Seniority in posting: Advanced

Compensation

$262,000 – $364,000/yr

Location
Sunnyvale, California · Kirkland, Washington
Type
Full-time
Level
lead/mgmt
Posted

Description

Google is hiring a Software Engineer, Security to lead the technical strategy, roadmap, and execution of application security and horizontal reliability for its Unified SecOps and Threat Operations portfolio. The role owns security posture, incident management, architecture reviews, postmortems, on-call reliability, distributed-system resilience, and cross-team technical decisions, serving as the primary liaison to the SRE organization. It requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience, 8 years of security engineering or large-scale systems experience, 8 years with data structures and algorithms, 3 years in technical leadership, and experience with application security vulnerabilities and secure coding. The role is based in Sunnyvale, California, or Kirkland, Washington, with a stated US salary of $262,000–$364,000 plus a 25% bonus target, equity, and benefits.

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