Senior Staff Software Engineer, Reliability and Application Security, Cloud Security

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical goal, strategy, and multi-year roadmap across the Google Unified SecOps and Threat Operations portfolio.
• Elevate standards for incident management, risk analysis, architecture reviews, blameless postmortems, and sustainable, healthy on-call rotations.
• Serve as the ultimate technical decision-maker and escalation point for all reliability, production health, and application security matters within Google Unified SecOps and Threat Operations.
• Act as the primary development liaison to the Google Unified SecOps and Threat Operations SRE organization; drive consensus across disparate software engineering and platform teams, acting as a neutral arbiter on complex architectural and operational decisions across Google Cloud Security.
• Serve as a trusted technical authority on complex, distributed systems architectures; identify critical failure modes in real-time streaming, batch processing, and AI/ML-driven threat operations, guiding engineering teams toward resilient, self-healing designs.
• - Drive the technical goal, strategy, and multi-year roadmap across the Google Unified SecOps and Threat Operations portfolio. - Elevate standards for incident management, risk analysis, architecture reviews, blameless postmortems, and sustainable, healthy on-call rotations. - Serve as the ultimate technical decision-maker and escalation point for all reliability, production health, and application security matters within Google Unified SecOps and Threat Operations. - Act as the primary development liaison to the Google Unified SecOps and Threat Operations SRE organization; drive consensus across disparate software engineering and platform teams, acting as a neutral arbiter on complex architectural and operational decisions across Google Cloud Security. - Serve as a trusted technical authority on complex, distributed systems architectures; identify critical failure modes in real-time streaming, batch processing, and AI/ML-driven threat operations, guiding engineering teams toward resilient, self-healing designs.

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Preferred qualifications:

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. - 8 years of experience in security engineering with a focus on application security, or software development architecting, operating, or scaling large-scale distributed systems, enterprise platforms, or cloud infrastructure. - 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms. - 3 years of experience in a technical leadership or tech lead role setting strategy for security programs, reliability initiatives, or large-scale systems, and driving cross-team execution. - Experience with application security vulnerabilities, secure coding practices, and mitigation techniques. Preferred qualifications: - Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field. - Experience with vulnerability management programs, security tooling, and automation. - Experience leading security or reliability efforts for a portfolio of SaaS or enterprise security products. - Deep domain expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, production systems governance, multi-region disaster recovery, and incident response frameworks. - Strong expertise in defining SLOs/SLIs, building observability frameworks, and scaling operations in fast-growing, mission-critical cloud environments.