Distinguished Engineer, Security Operations

Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

- 15 years of experience building mission critical products
- 5 years of experience serving as a technical leader for a software product built by many teams
- Leadership experience helping vet, hire, and retain a bench of TLs through collaboration with engineering leaders on the team

Preferred qualifications:

- Domain experience with infrastructure security
- Experience building enterprise products at scale and engaging with
enterprise customers
- Experience inspiring and motivating geographically distributed teams to work together as a cohesive unit
- Ability to collaborate closely and innovate with engineering and cross-functional teams (particularly PM and TPM) across Cloud and other relevant product areas

About the job

Security Operations by Google Cloud is advancing cybersecurity for enterprises of all sizes. We are dedicated to helping companies find and stop cyber attacks before they cause harm. With our expertise in global-scale threat intelligence, large-scale cloud computing, and big data, we help our customers and partners identify and solve their most significant security challenges, sorting through exabytes of data to find and resolve the most pertinent threats that our customers face. The Security Operations platform delivers the entire range of products and services necessary for enterprises to address their needs ranging from security analytics, response capabilities, and threat intelligence.

In this role, you will partner with the Engineering Director, Product Director, and Principal Engineers for Google Security Operations to scale the platform, support more customers, as well as support for more complex environments. You will lead architectural design, integrations with other GCP/Alphabet services, integrations with external partners, and optimize our ability to create quality new detections in response to the changing security landscape.

Your stakeholders will include senior management, engineering leaders across GCP and external partners, all of whose products and services regularly provide to and consume from your system. In this role, you will also work closely with customers to understand their requirements and help make them successful.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $349,000-$485,000 + 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 .

Responsibilities

- Create and evolve long-term strategies for security operations systems leveraging the best of Google's infrastructure.
- Evolve security operations architecture to support product features that span across multiple Alphabet products with a cohesive user experience.
- Drive innovation to make Google Security Operations the leading security operations platform. Formulate and realize complex technical outcomes in close collaboration with cross-functional partners and leads.
- Build a strong bench of TLs through support of hiring and mentoring in a wide variety of domains ranging from large-scale data processing, UI, enterprise integrations, and security engineering. Help grow current and future technical leaders on the team to help scale to an expanding set of businesses within the security operations product line.
- Support product and engineering partners across the security operations portfolio while balancing tactical trade offs against long-term opportunities and risks.

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