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Senior Software Engineer, Network Security, GGI Security

Google
1 day ago
Full-time
On-site
Sydney, 02

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Google is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the GGI Security team in Sydney, onsite, to design, build, test, and operate software that protects Google’s network at scale. The role includes design and code reviews, documentation, and triaging issues across hardware, networks, and software. Minimum qualifications: bachelor’s degree or equivalent, five years of software development, three years of full-stack experience, and three years of testing or launching products, plus one year in architecture. Preferred: Master’s or PhD, five years in data structures and algorithms, one year in technical leadership, and accessibility work. To apply, tailor your resume to demonstrate impact at scale, cross-team collaboration, and concrete security outcomes, and show readiness to work onsite in Sydney.


Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
  • 3 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.
  • 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products.
  • 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
  • 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
  • 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
  • Experience developing accessible technologies.
5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

The GGI Security team (GGIST) is a specialized team dedicated to managing security impacts at this immense scale. As industry leaders, we pride ourselves on delivering constant innovations that keep Google’s services and assets secure, fast, and reliable for billions of global users. Our oversight of the world’s fastest and largest network includes developing comprehensive vulnerability management systems for network devices, protecting the software supply chain against unauthorized persistent access, enhancing visibility, logging, and detection across the GGI network fleet, and remediating and upgrading insecure authentication protocols.

We are committed to a workplace that empowers every individual to share their best ideas as we solve web-scale challenges together.Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

  • Write and test 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.