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Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Google
New York City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 25 Nov 2025
💰 $244,000/yr($166,000/yr$244,000/yr)

About the role


Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience with security assessments, security design reviews or threat modeling.
  • 5 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network security and security protocols.
  • 5 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.
  • 1 year of experience leading teams in a technical capacity or leading technical risk analysis in an enterprise environment.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience with cloud infrastructure and services, including common security challenges or solutions related to cloud infrastructure and services (Google Cloud Platform).

About the job

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 Senior Cloud Security Engineer, you will work on a broad set of efforts focusing on defining, measuring, preventing, remediating, and sustaining a healthy cloud security posture. You will also support work to improve security across our acquisitions and other bet companies.

With your technical expertise, you will manage project priorities, deadlines and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance security solutions while working with partner teams. You will perform technical security assessments, security consulting, and design reviews to highlight risk, helping Google teams and partners improve security.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $166,000-$244,000 + 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.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

  • Design, build, and implement cloud security controls and solutions to ensure Alphabet's infrastructure on public clouds (Google Cloud Platform) operates to the highest security standards.
  • Review designs for cloud architecture and already deployed infrastructure to perform technical security assessments to develop threat models, provide design feedback, report security findings and provide remediation recommendations.
  • Design solutions to identify, measure, and remediate security gaps in Alphabet's infrastructure on public clouds (Google Cloud Platform), on-prem physical networks, and other third-party hosted software and systems operate to the highest security standards.

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