Security Engineer, Detection, Security Surveillance

2 Weeks ago • 2-5 Years • Cyber Security

About the job

Summary

The Security Engineer, Detection, Security Surveillance role involves identifying and mitigating security risks within Google's vast infrastructure. Responsibilities include designing and implementing security controls, participating in a 24/7 global security operations center responding to threats, investigating security events from diverse sources, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance detection capabilities, and developing new tools to scale these capabilities. This position requires a strong understanding of security engineering principles, network security, and experience with security assessments, threat modeling, and data analysis. The ideal candidate will have coding proficiency and experience in threat hunting and incident response.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 2+ years security assessment/design review/threat modeling experience
  • 2+ years security engineering, computer/network security, security protocols experience
  • 2+ years coding experience (general-purpose languages)
  • Incident response, security alert analysis
Good to have:
  • Python, Go, C/C++, or Java experience
  • Signals development and threat hunting/modeling experience
  • Data set analysis and intrusion detection system experience
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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience with security assessments or security design reviews or threat modeling.
  • 2 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network security and security protocols.
  • 2 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 3 years of experience responding to security problems, looking at security alerts, analysis, and response.
  • Experience in Python, Go, C/C++, or Java.
  • Experience with signals development and threat hunting/modeling.
  • Experience in analysis of data sets and intrusion detection systems.

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.

The Security Surveillance team (SST) monitors Google’s network and systems for threats to information security. The team strives to accomplish this by protecting Google’s culture and innovative practice.

Responsibilities

  • Identify security issues and implement and design security controls, tools, and services to improve security systems and processes.
  • Participate in a 24/7 global operation that hunts for and responds to security events on Google's networks.
  • Perform investigations on a wide variety of events from various sources to determine whether they pose a threat to Google.
  • Work with teams from around Google to discover new detection capabilities and logging sources.
  • Create and develop new tooling to enable scaling of detection capabilities.
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