Senior Security Engineer, Access Security

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.

Our team is the central engineering group responsible for reducing access abuse risks across our production infrastructure. We drive this mission through comprehensive security programs focused on user data protection, AI model oversight, access management, outage prevention, and securing core infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Identify security issues and implement and design security controls, tools, and services to improve security systems and processes.
  
• Drive the strategy for the teams core pillars by identifying emerging access risks and designing technical solutions to mitigate them at scale.
• Architect and evolve security risk mitigation systems to enable continuous, automated assessment and remediation across Google’s infrastructure.
  
• Serve as a technical consultant for complex security issues, guiding teams across Product Areas (PAs) to implement security invariant.
  

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience with security assessments or security design reviews or threat modeling.
  
• 5 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network security and security protocols.
  
• 5 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.
  
• 1 year of experience leading teams in a technical capacity or leading technical risk analysis in an enterprise environment.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in building or managing security posture management frameworks that provide continuous visibility and automated governance over infrastructure risks.
• Understanding of identity and access management (IAM), mandatory access control (MAC), principle of least privilege, and zero-trust architectures in production environments.
• Technical knowledge of system hardening techniques across various layers (OS, network, and application) to enforce security invariants and reduce the attack surface of critical production services.
• Proven expertise in performing complex threat modeling for large-scale distributed systems and conducting attack path modeling and simulation to identify non-obvious lateral movement and indirect access risks.

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process