**Minimum qualifications**:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience with security assessments or security design reviews or threat modeling.
- 8 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network security and security protocols.
- 8 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.
- 3 years of experience leading teams in a technical capacity or leading technical risk analysis in an enterprise environment.
**Preferred qualifications**:
- Experience operating within cross-functional teams.
- Experience in growing a team.
- Ability to work in both engineering and operational environments, and influence.
- Excellent communication skills.
**About the job**:
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.
Product Security Engineering is the team within the Cloud CISO organization responsible for helping ensure every product Cloud ships is as secure as it can be and increasing the assurance levels of security in the infrastructure underlying all products. This team will also focus on increasing the capabilities of each product team to develop more secure products by design and by default, from patterns, tools and frameworks to increasing the skill level of embedded security leads.
As an Information Security Engineer you will help to ensure that software and systems are designed and implemented to the highest security standards. You will perform technical security assessments, code reviews and vulnerability testing to highlight risk, helping Google teams and partners to improve security, and work on a wide variety of software designs and technology stacks.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
**Responsibilities**:
- Identify security issues and implement and design security controls, tools, and services to improve security systems and processes.
- Work in partnership with engineers and technical program managers within Cloud CISO and PSE team to ensure that GCP grows securely.
- Lead a team of Information Security Engineers to perform security reviews, research and reproduce vulnerabilities, design secure protocols, systems, and write tests and fuzzers.
- Review and develop secure operational practices, and provide security guidance for engineers and support staff.
- Review designs and look for vulnerabilities, both with one-time reviews and longer term engagements.
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.