Job Description

Minimum qualifications

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

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in computer security or threat intelligence to include developing and deployment of security capabilities (eg, host/network monitoring), network analysis, offensive security, vulnerability remediation, etc.
• Experience investigating computer intrusions
• Experience in stakeholder management (i.e., leading, presenting, reporting) to numerous audiences including executives.

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.

The Disruption Team within the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) is focused on enabling significant degradation of threat actors’ missions, operations and capabilities. Our team focuses on the most significant threat actors targeting our users, customers, and the broader online ecosystem. We do so through the identification and refinement of disruption opportunities which bring together a toolbox of both technical and nontechnical capabilities. We target both nation-state and criminal actors for disruption, prioritizing based on the level of expected impact to the actor and our users. To accomplish our mission we partner deeply with a wide array of stakeholders. This includes mission teams within GTIG Threat Operations responsible for tracking and analyzing attacker groups, broader GTIG teams such as Intel Delivery, and an array of product and abuse teams across Alphabet. We also partner with a wide array of external stakeholders including governments and industry partners.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Identify security issues and implement and design security controls, tools, and services to improve security systems and processes.
• Engage across GTIG and Alphabet to identify, vet and refine disruption opportunities, working closely with GTIG Mission Tech Leads, Threat Operations, Intel Delivery, and Product Areas.
• Analyze data to build a comprehensive picture of threat actor infrastructure, malware, tactics, organizational structure, and other relevant factors in support of disruption planning.
• Advocate the GTIG Disruption program and develop relationships across Alphabet, external security and technology companies, non-profit organizations, internet hosting providers, and government and law enforcement organizations globally.
• Identify opportunities to automate disruption of malicious activity and support efforts to improve our systems.