Security Response Engineer
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience with incident or emergency response coordination.
- Experience in systems administration, software engineering, digital forensics, security engineering, privacy engineering.
Preferred qualifications:
- Advanced degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with Python, Go, C/C++ or Java and Digital Forensic analysis.
- Knowledge of legal, information security and privacy frameworks (e.g., ISO 27001, Safe Harbor Frameworks, GDPR).
- Ability to collaborate and lead teams.
- Excellent organizational, prioritization, multitasking and communication skills with the ability to solve tests using data motivated approaches.
About the job
There's no such thing as a "safe system" - only safer systems. Our Security team works to create and maintain the safest operating environment for Google's users and developers. As a Security Engineer, you help protect network boundaries, keep computer systems and network devices hardened against attacks and provide security services to protect highly sensitive data like passwords and customer information. Security Engineers work directly with network equipment and actively monitor our systems for attacks and intrusions. You also work with software engineers to proactively identify and fix security flaws and vulnerabilities.
You use your industry experience to own and drive the resolution of complex security incidents, policy questions and technical security issues.
In this role, you will be a member of our global on-call response team and use your security experience and Digital Forensic and Incident Response (DFIR) domain knowledge to investigate and respond to escalations from across Alphabet. You will use professional emergency management procedures to lead teams of engineers, lawyers, executives and others toward any situation and mitigate and resolve security incidents. You will also assist in technical assessments of security issues alongside other Security Engineers.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $141,000-$202,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.Responsibilities
- Coordinate and drive resolution on a range of incidents.
- Analyze causes to identify trends and systematic issues.
- Improve information security of Google’s products and services.
- Develop excellence in Incident Management through tools and infrastructure and prepare teams across Google through exercises and training.
- Manage relationships across the company (e.g., legal, engineering, communications, etc.).
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