Software Engineer, Security, Fuchsia OS
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Rust, C, C++).
- 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
- 3 years of experience building software for data privacy or security (e.g., identity and access management).
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
- Experience in a product or platform security team.
- Experience with security reviews, audits, and common security attack techniques and mitigations.
- Understanding of operating systems at a technical level and security impacting considerations.
- Understanding of a firm user orientation, considering trust, safety, security, and privacy.
About the job
Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.
In this role, you will push the limits of software security for Fuchsia by conducting security assessments and design reviews. You will solve issues in kernel interfaces, sandbox design, collaborating with engineers to pioneer exploit mitigation and automated vulnerability discovery.
Fuchsia is a modern, open source operating system that is simple, secure, updatable, and performant. It’s a general purpose OS, designed to power an ecosystem of hardware and software, and provides core operating system functions like system resource management, a driver framework, and software abstractions.Responsibilities
- Perform security audits, assessments, and threat modeling on devices, software components, and new features to identify vulnerabilities, document findings, and recommend mitigations.
- Build and maintain core security components, mitigations, and features for the Fuchsia infrastructure and supply chain.
- Create tools and processes to reduce security bugs in the codebase and provide security-focused code reviews.
- Assist with security incident response and shape the overall Fuchsia security architecture.
- Advise and educate teams across the organization on security best practices to ensure products are secure by design.
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