16 hours ago
San Jose, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$123k - $174k/yr
Responsibilities
- Support threat modeling and detection requirement planning for enterprise surfaces, including insider exfiltration, access abuse, and malicious process execution.
- Design and implement components of detection logic across interconnected enterprise systems and surfaces.
- Assess security risks, justify detection strategies, and improve existing detections to reduce false positives and increase fidelity.
- Analyze Red Team and Purple Team exercises, document detection gaps, and implement remediation detections.
- Improve detection engineering pipelines, testing frameworks, automation tooling, and related workflows.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 1 year of experience with security assessments, security design reviews, or threat modeling.
- At least 1 year of coding experience in one or more general-purpose languages.
- Experience with security engineering, computer and network security, and security protocols.
- Preferred: experience developing security tools or automating security operations workflows.
- Preferred: experience with SQL or Logica and detection formats such as Yara-L, YARA, or Sigma.
- Preferred: experience in detection engineering, security operations, threat hunting, or incident response.
- Preferred: knowledge of detections on macOS, Linux, ChromeOS, and Google Workspace/SaaS.
- Preferred: knowledge of AI and agentic systems, MITRE ATT&CK, and threat modeling methodologies.
Benefits
- 15% bonus target, equity, and benefits are offered 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.