Staff Security Engineer, Security Research - Google Careers
First seen by Alion on Nov 11, 2026.
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Minimum qualifications: ###- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network security and security protocols.
- 8 years of experience with security assessments or security design reviews or threat modeling.
- 8 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.
- Experience in cyber threat engineering (e.g., vulnerability research, exploit development, reverse engineering, malware analysis, threat modeling, code-level security auditing).
- Experience with the technical iOS platform.
- Experience in one or more vulnerability research security fields.
- Experience publishing security research.
- Experience communicating technical security concepts to multiple audiences.
- Experience in cyber threat engineering (e.g., vulnerability research, exploit development, reverse engineering, malware analysis, threat modeling, code-level security auditing).
- Experience in offensive security (e.g., Red Teaming, Penetration Testing, Adversary Simulation).
- Experience in identifying emerging threats and vulnerabilities.
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.
Our Security team works to create and maintain the safest operating environment for Google's users and developers. We build tooling to scale security research, and create new methodologies for discovering high impact security vulnerabilities. We also use in-house exploit development to provide relevant and actionable guidance for long-term defenses and mitigations, and engage in non-technical work such as driving improvements to industry security processes and best practices.
As a Security Engineer, you will 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. You will work directly with network equipment and actively monitor our systems for attacks and intrusions. You will also work with software engineers to proactively identify and fix security flaws and vulnerabilities. You will use your industry experience to own and drive the resolution of complex security incidents, policy questions and technical security issues.
Responsibilities ###- Conduct vulnerability research and exploit development, specifically in iOS, MacOS and XNU.
- Work with other security engineers on the analysis of, and response to vulnerabilities reported by other parties.
- Create tools and infrastructure that enables the team to scale up our research efforts.
- Engage the wider defensive community by publishing your results.
- Identify security issues and implement and design security controls, tools, and services to improve security systems and processes.