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Senior Security Engineer, OCONUS, Google Pub Sector

at Google

Location

Reston, VA, USA

Compensation

$174k–$252k USD

Type

full time

Posted

2 weeks ago

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Job description

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.

The National Security team supports and augments federal agencies with expert-level cybersecurity services and is the lead for research and development efforts within Google Public Sector.

Google Public Sector brings the magic of Google to the mission of government and education with solutions purpose-built for enterprises. We focus on helping United States public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, and we continue to make significant investments and grow our team to meet the complex needs of local, state and federal government and educational institutions.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Identify security issues and implement and design security controls, tools, and services to improve security systems and processes.
  • Embed end-to-end security guardrails directly into the SDLC, building automated evaluation pipelines, custom linting, and continuous validation tools for high-assurance code deployment.
  • Architect, build, and maintain production-ready Terraform modules and deployment blueprints that scale core platform capabilities while enforcing zero-trust baseline configurations.
  • Leverage Generative AI technologies to automate complex security testing, surface edge-case vulnerabilities, and identify emerging attack vectors beyond conventional scan coverage.
  • Establish, monitor, and enforce technical security policies and configuration baselines across distributed multi-tenant and air-gapped cloud environments.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.
  • 5 years of experience in cloud security, application security, security engineering, computer and network security, or security protocols.
  • Must possess an active Top Secret/SCI security clearance with current polygraph.
  • Ability to travel internationally up to 25% of the time.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience with mobile device management.

Must be a US Citizen to meet customer and compliance requirements, including potential access to classified information.

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

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