Staff Security Engineer

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Staff Software Engineer
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8+ years of experience
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Description For Staff Security Engineer

Google's YouTube Security Engineering team is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to lead and enhance the platform's security measures. This role involves creating and maintaining a safe operating environment for Google's users and developers. The successful candidate will work on proactive and reactive systems to manage security threats, design innovative prevention strategies, and deploy large-scale solutions across multiple Google clusters.

The position requires a blend of technical expertise and leadership skills. You'll be responsible for identifying security issues, implementing controls, and leading the security strategy for YouTube. Your work will involve reviewing designs, consulting on security incidents, and engaging with pen testing teams. You'll also explore cutting-edge technologies like Large Language Models for identifying security gaps.

This role offers an opportunity to work at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and creativity, moving at the speed of culture to empower users to share their stories and connect with one another. You'll be part of a team that believes in giving everyone a voice and making the world a better place through shared stories and community building.

Join Google in this critical role to shape the future of security for one of the world's largest video platforms, balancing innovation with robust protection for millions of creators and billions of users.

Last updated 2 months ago

Responsibilities For Staff Security Engineer

  • Identify security issues and implement and design security controls, tools, and services to improve security systems and processes
  • Lead the security strategy for YouTube. Review and develop secure operational practices, and provide security guidance for engineers and support staff
  • Lead and consult on security incidents across YouTube products. Respond to vulnerabilities with repos, mitigation, and hardening
  • Engage with pen testing teams to identify vulnerabilities and use techniques including reverse engineering, fuzzing, and static analysis
  • Review designs for security gaps, both with one-time and longer term engagements. Explore foundational/Large Language Model (LLM) models for identifying security gaps in product areas

Requirements For Staff Security Engineer

Python
Java
Go
  • 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

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