Senior Software Engineer, Offensive Security
Role summary
Google is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Offensive Security to join their team. This role involves conducting realistic offensive security exercises to test and enhance detection and response capabilities, identify vulnerabilities, and simulate advanced adversary tactics. The engineer will develop tools and infrastructure, design security improvements, and document/present findings to diverse audiences. The position requires a strong background in software development, security software development, and offensive security practices, with a focus on identifying and emulating sophisticated attack methods to strengthen Google's overall security posture.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
- 3 years of experience building software for data privacy or security (e.g., identity and access management).
- 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products.
- 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
- 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
- Experience with software development in C++, Go, or Python.
- Experience in pen testing or red teaming.
- Experience developing accessible technologies.
About The Job
Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.
In this role, you will perform realistic offensive security exercises to simulate real attacks, to test and improve our detection and response capabilities, and identify how attackers could infiltrate and move inside our infrastructure. With your technical expertise, you will come up with scenarios that advanced adversaries might try to compromise our security, and execute these attacks in a safe manner and in accordance with our rules of engagement. You will emulate the techniques used by known hacker groups, and come up with new techniques that adversaries might attempt in the future. You will thoroughly document any findings, and present the results to colleagues as well as leadership.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $174,000-$252,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .
Responsibilities
- Work with a team of highly skilled hackers to plan and lead realistic offensive security exercises.
- Build tools and infrastructure to support our exercises.
- Design controls and improvements to sharpen our capabilities to defend against attackers in close cooperation with the teams responsible for implementing them.
- Document and present results to a variety of audiences, ranging from highly technical engineers over non-technical subject matter experts to executive leadership.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .