Security Engineer, Looker, Google Cloud

Job Description

Note: By applying to this position your application is automatically submitted to the following locations: Santa Cruz, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in the infrastructure and application security realm.
• Experience programming in one or more of the following: Java, C/C++, C#, Objective C, Python, JavaScript, Kotlin, Dart, and/or Go.
• Experience with multiple cloud environments.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with and proven methods for managing the information security incident lifecycle, including incident response, mitigation, after-action reporting, and mapping a path forward.
• Experience with tools such as Sumologic, CrowdStrike, or similar.
• Ability to prepare, investigate and increase security policies, criteria, and ways.
• Ability to combine information from various sources into clear, concise technical documents that explain the background and procedures for detecting and mitigating risks.
• Understanding XSS (Cross Site Scripting) types of vulnerabilities in applications.

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 hands-on 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.

The Security Engineer helps ensure that our cloud application is developed in a secure and compliant manner. Beyond the methodologies and tools, it is important to have a culture of security and develop an attacker's mind-set.

Looker is a unified platform that powers data experiences and delivers actionable business insights to employees at the point of decision. Looker integrates data into the daily workflows of users to allow organizations to extract value from data at web-scale.

Responsibilities

• Act as a key contact for key security controls between Google’s Central security and Looker the business unit.
• Develop additional event correlation tools and processes, specifically related to Looker infrastructure and applications.
• Assist Engineering Compliance with technical assistance to support third-party audits and certifications, including developing automated evidence collection tooling.
• Be a resource for the Mergers and Acquisitions team for future acquisitions especially as it relates to multi-cloud and container security.
• Serve as technical security lead for large complex projects that involve cross-functional teams. Assess technical controls and identify areas of improvement.

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