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, and with data structures/algorithms.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• Experience in Cloud, C++, software engineering.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Experienced working with the Cloud organization, and experience with security and low-level programming.
• Knowledge of C++ to maintain the agent we run on Google Cloud Platform.
• Knowledge of the eBPF framework, and security.
• Familiarity with building data pipelines.
  
  

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.

Google and Alphabet are the goal of sophisticated adversaries. The Endpoint Security team builds many parts of the scalable infrastructure to detect and block those security threats and keep Google and Alphabet safe. Our adversaries are tireless, so we need creative software engineers who are passionate about security to join us to build our detection and response capabilities for Google, Alphabet, and the world. We partner closely with Security Surveillance and Digital Forensics teams, and we stay informed about the capabilities of our adversaries by the Threat Analysis Team.

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

• Lead the Security Endpoint Agents team's effort to cover more of Cloud's infrastructure with performant and reliable telemetry agents, drive adoption of Cloud security standards among GCP products, and work with SREs to make using our security agents a breeze.
• Build low-level endpoint security tools to process large amounts of security events at low latency and with minimal impact to the machine performance. Focus on covering machines powering the Google Cloud environment.
• Interface with Cloud products and work with them to improve their security posture. Monitor and increase coverage of Cloud surface that is protected by security agents.
• Build and maintain low-level security agents with stringent reliability and performance requirements. Maintain our telemetry agent's EBPF based functionality.
• Build and maintain a data collection pipeline for aggregating security relevant data.
  
  
  

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .