15 hours ago
Base Salary
$307k - $427k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and drive the multi-year security strategy for Google Compute Engine across global control planes and low-level node data planes.
- Define defenses against autonomous agentic threats, LLM-assisted exploitation, automated vulnerability discovery, and exploit generation.
- Architect hardware-level defenses and isolation boundaries addressing CPU vulnerabilities, speculative execution, transient execution, side channels, and cross-tenant leakage.
- Lead security defenses and privilege reduction across hypervisors, virtual machine monitors, host kernels, and low-level runtimes.
- Advance host deprivileging, zero-trust host architectures, sandboxing, virtualization-escape defenses, and hardware-assisted security offloading.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 15 years of professional software development experience, or 13 years with an advanced degree.
- Experience architecting, developing, and securing low-level systems software across virtualization and operating systems stacks.
- Preferred advanced degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field.
- Preferred 20 years of software engineering experience and industry leadership in cloud platform security, hypervisor security, hardware/CPU security, or operating system defense.
- Experience with emerging adversarial capabilities, including AI/LLM-accelerated vulnerability discovery, automated exploit synthesis, and autonomous agentic threat vectors.
- Experience providing cross-organizational technical leadership, executive communication, and consensus-building across large multidisciplinary engineering organizations.
- Expertise in hardware-software security co-design, CPU microarchitectural vulnerability mitigation, hardware root of trust, vTPM, and Confidential Computing.
Benefits
- Benefits are provided by Google; the posting references bonus, equity, and benefits in addition to base pay.
About Google
Google builds consumer and enterprise software and services including Search, Android, YouTube, Chrome, Maps, Gmail, and Google Cloud. Its business model centers on digital advertising and paid cloud, software, and hardware offerings (e.g., Pixel and Nest) for consumers, developers, and organizations. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Google operates globally as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.