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

Google· Google Cloud Security
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Hybrid (Sunnyvale, CA), Hybrid (Kirkland, WA)$262k - $364kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior leadership software engineering role focused on advancing the application security posture and horizontal reliability across Google Unified SecOps and Threat Operations, with ownership of technical goals, strategy, and execution for security and reliability initiatives within Google 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.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in security engineering with 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.

Skills

Required:Technical leadershipApplication security

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
  • Retirement benefits: 401(k) with company match
  • Paid Time Off: 20 days vacation per year
  • Sick Time: 40 hours/year (69 hours/year in Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
  • Maternity Leave: 28-30 weeks
  • Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
  • Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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