Software Engineer, Security, Privacy, Detection
Google · Posted Nov 2
Search engine, cloud computing, software, hardware, and artificial intelligence services
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About the role
Google's Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google's flagship products, owning the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure. Software engineers at Google work on projects that handle information at massive scale, spanning distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, data storage, security, AI, and more. This role focuses on security, privacy, and detection, with work involving product/system code, design reviews, and applying techniques such as LLMs and agentic workflows to infrastructure security problems.
What you will do
- Write product or system development code.
- Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
- Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
- Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
- Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
- 1 year of experience with data structures or algorithms.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in building applications with Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering, or agentic workflows.
- Experience with security, threat detection, or distributed systems.
- Understanding of machine learning model evaluation strategies, datasets, or performance benchmarking.
- Ability to learn and apply emerging AI techniques to critical infrastructure security problems.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Google
Google LLC is an American multinational technology company focusing on artificial intelligence, online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, and consumer electronics. As a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., it is widely recognized for services like Google Search, YouTube, Android, and the Gemini AI ecosystem.
- Industry
- Internet
- Company size
- 180000+ employees
- Founded
- 1998-09-04
- Location
- Mountain View, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $25M raised
- 1999-06-07Series A$25M
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer
Chief Executive Officer, Google Cloud
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