Senior Security Engineer

Waze is a platform that empowers users to contribute road data and edit maps to improve navigation, leveraging mobile technology and a passionate global community.
$161,000 - $239,000
Security
Senior Software Engineer
In-Person
5+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS · Travel

Description For Senior Security Engineer

Join Google's Waze team as a Senior Security Engineer in a role where security is fundamental to the product development process. This position offers an exciting opportunity to work with one of the world's leading navigation platforms, where you'll be responsible for defining and implementing security best practices across Waze's infrastructure.

As a Security Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in protecting and enhancing the security of a platform that millions of users rely on daily. You'll be working at the intersection of security and transportation technology, contributing to incident response, vulnerability management, and providing security guidance to development teams.

The role combines technical leadership with hands-on security engineering, requiring expertise in security protocols, attack analysis, mitigation strategies, and secure network design. You'll be working with cloud-native architectures and modern technology stacks, including Kubernetes and serverless architectures.

This position offers competitive compensation with a base salary range of $161,000-$239,000, plus additional benefits including bonus and equity opportunities. You'll be part of Google's inclusive culture and work with a global team dedicated to solving transportation challenges through technology.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in both breaking and building systems, with the ability to conduct security reviews, penetration testing, and vulnerability analysis. You'll need to demonstrate leadership capabilities and the ability to work across different technical domains while maintaining a strong focus on security best practices.

Working at Google's Waze, you'll be part of a mission to redefine expectations of modern navigation while ensuring the highest standards of security. The role offers the opportunity to impact millions of users while working with cutting-edge technology and a passionate global community.

Your responsibilities will include automating security infrastructure, conducting security design reviews, and advising development teams on secure practices. This is an excellent opportunity for a security professional who wants to combine technical expertise with practical security implementation in a product that affects real-world transportation solutions.

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Responsibilities For Senior Security Engineer

  • Contribute to incident response and vulnerability management
  • Automate the configuration and change management of security infrastructure
  • Advise developers and site reliability engineer team regarding secure development best practices
  • Conduct security design and implementation reviews

Requirements For Senior Security Engineer

Kubernetes
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 5 years of experience in security engineering (security protocols, attack analysis, mitigation strategies, secure network design, OS hardening, web application security)
  • 5 years of experience with security assessments or security design reviews or threat modeling
  • 5 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages
  • 1 year of experience leading teams in technical capacity or leading technical risk analysis

Benefits For Senior Security Engineer

  • bonus
  • equity
  • benefits

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