Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of technical experience in network protocols (TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, HTTP/S), routing, load balancing, or distributed traffic serving architectures.
• 3 years of experience in managing technical teams.
  
• 3 years of experience managing operational incident response and participating in or supervising on-call rotations.
• Experience programming in one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Go.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
  
• 5 years of engineering management experience, with a proven track record of managing executive individual contributors or managing other managers.
• Experience shifting operational engineering teams from reactive interrupt-driven workflows to automated, intelligence-driven defense models.
• Demonstrated executive presence and ability to communicate complex, high-stakes security incidents calmly and decisively to engineering VPs, Directors, and enterprise Cloud customers.
• Extensive background in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) incident response, malware analysis/reverse engineering, botnet tracking, WAF administration, or threat intelligence pipelines.

About the job

In this role, you will manage a distributed engineering team, oversee real-time incident response, and lead DoSSec's evolution from reactive mitigation into proactive threat intelligence, adversary research, and automated disruption.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing, distributed team of Site Reliability Engineerings (SREs) and security engineers. Manage career development, performance evaluations, and technical mentorship while supporting the team's expansion under new initiatives.
• Drive the Workstreams technical roadmap, overseeing the development of automated threat intelligence and tracking systems to mitigate risks proactively.
• Own the team's operational health and interrupt budgets. Lead the transition to and execution of a on-call rotation, actively driving escalation workflows.
• Partner closely with infrastructure providers and key customer stakeholders to unify protections across ecosystems and support productized offerings.
• Guide the publication of internal threat research and collaborate with internal intelligence partners and external communities to establish Google as an industry leader in Denial of Service (DoS) defense.