Google Hiring for Security Engineering Manager, Identity and Authentication at Seattle, WA Full Time

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 directly 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 are a recognized expert in at least two security domains and use your leadership skills to manage a team that sets the direction and goals for solving Google-wide problems. You identify fundamental security problems at Google and drives major security improvements in Google infrastructure.

Within Security Engineering, the Enterprise Infrastructure Protection (EIP) organization protects user data by preventing attacks on Googlers, the systems they use and the infrastructure they rely on for access. The team advances the state of the art for security by building and motivating the creation of trustworthy computing infrastructure. Accounts, Identity, Security Keys, and Authentication Security is the focus for the EIP Identity team within the EIP organization.

Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology’s greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Responsibilities

• Support a team of security engineers that define, set, and manage access security policy across all Google’s environments and levels of the stack.
• Partner with individual contributors, technical leads, peer managers, partner teams, and security senior leadership to prioritize security engineering efforts to address risks and meet business objectives.
• Make individual contributions to select design and policy decisions, drive and conclude information security risk discussions, and escalations up to and including Vice President level.
• Build and influence relevant policy enforcement points as well as improvements to them and consult on the topics of authentication, authorization, and access control.