Senior Security Engineer, Cloud Red Team, Cloud CISO

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. As a part of the Product Security Engineering team within the Cloud CISO organization, you will be responsible for helping ensure every product in Cloud is as secure as it can be, and increasing the security in the infrastructure underlying all our products.As a part of the Cloud Red Team, your mission is to evaluate our ability to detect and respond to known and unknown threats by simulating real-world adversaries that aim to compromise and persist in Cloud’s infrastructure. In short: Hack Cloud to make hacking Cloud harder.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in a technical security role (e.g., security engineering, security research, DevSecOps, or incident response).
• Experience with vulnerability assessments and vulnerability exploitation.
• Experience in security and ethical hacking.

Preferred qualifications:

• 3 years of offensive security experience (red teaming, vulnerability research, pen testing, etc - not just running tools) in Cloud environment.
• Experience with Artificial Intelligence.
• Ability to develop custom exploits, modify existing exploits, and bypass security controls.
• Fluency in programming languages relevant to security and cloud automation (e.g., Python, Go, Bash).
• Being able to clearly and concisely articulate complex technical findings, risks, and remediation strategies to both technical and non-technical audiences, both verbally and in writing.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the roadmap for one of the programs within Cloud Red Team, while collaborating within a highly-skilled team to plan and execute attacks against Cloud’s products, services, and infrastructure.
• Build tools and infrastructure to support attacker goals, while identifying vulnerabilities and attack vectors across Cloud services, configurations, and related technologies.
• Participate in threat modeling exercises to identify potential attack paths and weaknesses in Cloud architectures and deployments.
• Design realistic and relevant attack scenarios based on current threat intelligence and the specific Cloud environment being assessed.
• Create reports that capture the insights gained during an attack and present them to a variety of audiences.