Contractual Google Security Engineer Jobs (NOW HIRING)

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development.
• 7 years of experience leading technical project strategy, ML design, and optimizing ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 5 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.
• 2 years of experience with GenAI techniques (e.g., LLMs, Multi-Modal etc.) or with GenAI-related concepts.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 5 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Experience in building and deploying Agentic AI systems.
• Experience in security domains.

About the job
Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.
With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.
Our team is at the forefront of revolutionizing Google Security Operations (SecOps) through the power of artificial intelligence. We are developing a Security Agentic Platform to enable the development of first-party and third-party security agents to deliver a proactive, intelligent, and automated Agentic Security Operations Center (SoC).
In this role, you will lead a team of talented engineers in building the next generation of Security Agentic AI platforms and systems that will protect major organizations worldwide.
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.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $262000 - $365000 (USD) 25% bonus target equity benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google .
Responsibilities

• Guide, mentor, and grow a team of engineers focused on developing and deploying agentic AI for security that will power the Google Unified Security products.
• Manage the technical goal and strategy for the Security Agentic AI, ensuring alignment with the broader security teams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams along with product management, data science, and security engineering to define product requirements and roadmaps, and deliver features.
• Oversee the end-to-end development lifecycle, from ideation and design to implementation, testing, and deployment of AI-driven agentic security solutions.
• Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, staying abreast of the latest advancements in AI, machine learning, and cybersecurity.

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