Software Engineer, Security

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• Experience in Cloud, C++, software engineering.

Nice to haves:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Experienced working with the Cloud organization, and experience with security and low-level programming.
• Knowledge of C++ to maintain the agent run on Google Cloud Platform.
• Knowledge of the eBPF framework, and security.
• Familiarity with building data pipelines.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead the Security Endpoint Agents team's effort to cover more of Cloud's infrastructure with performant and reliable telemetry agents, drive adoption of Cloud security standards among GCP products, and work with SREs to make using our security agents a breeze.
• Build low-level endpoint security tools to process large amounts of security events at low latency and with minimal impact to the machine performance. Focus on covering machines powering the Google Cloud environment.
• Interface with Cloud products and work with them to improve their security posture. Monitor and increase coverage of Cloud surface that is protected by security agents.
• Build and maintain low-level security agents with stringent reliability and performance requirements. Maintain our telemetry agent's EBPF based functionality.
• Build and maintain a data collection pipeline for aggregating security relevant data.

Perks and benefits:

• Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another.
• Opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and the fast-paced business grow and evolve.
• Work on critical projects at Google with versatile engineering tasks.
• Impact important technical decisions across the company with the Core team.