Security Engineer II, Uppercase Research
Austin, TX
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 1 year of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.
- 1 year of experience with security assessments or security design reviews or threat modeling.
- Experience with security engineering, computer and network security, and security protocols.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in security research, detection engineering, or adjacent work.
- Experience with signals development, threat hunting, and threat modeling on cloud data sources.
- Experience with security analysis tooling, including cloud audit logs and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM).
About the job
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. Uppercase is a specialized team of security engineers dedicated to identifying and mitigating threat actors before they can achieve their mission. Originating from Alphabet's moonshot factory and developed within Chronicle (now Google SecOps), we leverage skills in big data, cybersecurity, machine learning, and cloud computing to engineer next-generation security solutions. Our goal is to partner with the broader security community to ensure the advantage remains with those fighting cybercrime.Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.Responsibilities
- Conduct technical threat actor behavior analysis and perform in-depth research into emerging threat activity.
- Work with partner teams across Google to discover and implement new detection capabilities.
- Write and optimize YARA-L rules to track and identify potentially malicious behavior.
- Maintain and scale detection engineering processes and tooling as needed.
- Innovate detection engineering strategies by leveraging LLM-based technologies and AI agents.
About the Company
Build for everyone
Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.
It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.
So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.
Benefits
We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.
Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.
How we Hire
Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.