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Senior Staff Security Engineer, Security Engineering, Cloud CISO

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Compensation
$262–364K/yr
Location
San Francisco, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Senior Staff Security Engineer will help ensure Google Cloud products and underlying infrastructure meet high security standards. The role embeds with product teams to design secure cloud products and systems, conduct technical security assessments, and reduce risk. It also develops security practices and strategy, guides engineers, and mentors security engineers, product-team software engineers, and technical leaders.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Security EngineeringComputer SecurityNetwork SecuritySecurity ProtocolsSecurity AssessmentsSecurity Design ReviewsThreat ModelingCodingTechnical LeadershipTechnical Risk AnalysisSoftware DevelopmentAICross-Functional InfluenceCommunicationPeople ManagementInitiativeRelationship Building

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience10 Years Security Engineering Experience10 Years Security Assessment or Design Review or Threat Modeling Experience10 Years Coding Experience10 Years Technical Leadership or Risk Analysis ExperienceEnglish Proficiency

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave

Full job description

Senior Staff Security Engineer, Security Engineering, Cloud CISO

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XIn most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

  • Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance

  • Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match

  • Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment

  • Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance

  • Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks

  • Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks

  • Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Kirkland, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA .

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 10 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network security and security protocols.

  • 10 years of experience with security assessments or security design reviews or threat modeling.

  • 10 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.

  • 10 years of experience leading teams in a technical capacity or leading technical risk analysis in an enterprise environment.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience building and delivering software in a professional setting.

  • Experience using AI to solve complex security problems.

  • Ability to influence and engage with cross-functional teams and executive stakeholders, driving alignment and achieving results.

  • Excellent communication and people management skills with the ability to take initiative and build strong, productive relationships externally and internally.

About the job

Cloud CISO Security Engineering is the team within the Cloud CISO organization responsible for helping ensure every product Cloud ships is as secure as it can be and increasing the assurance levels of security in the infrastructure underlying all our products. This team also focuses on increasing the capabilities of each product team to develop more secure products by design and by default, from patterns, tools and frameworks to increasing the skill level of embedded security leads.

As a security engineer, you will help to ensure that our software and systems are designed and implemented to the highest security standards. You will oversee technical security assessments, code reviews and vulnerability testing to highlight risk, helping Google teams and partners to improve security, and work to secure a wide variety of software designs and technology stacks.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s 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 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Embed within product teams to co-design and co-deliver secure cloud products and infrastructure. Design secure protocols and systems.

  • Review and develop secure development practices, and provide security guidance for engineers and support staff.

  • Leverage and state of the art techniques to perform security reviews, as well as research, reproduce and remediate vulnerabilities.

  • Develop and drive sustainable risk reduction strategies. Develop security strategy for Google Cloud Platform products.

  • Mentor security engineers, software engineers in product teams, and technical leaders.

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How this job compares

Set against the 1,036 open Security Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$262–364K/yr
  • California median$187–275K/yr159 salary ranges
  • US median$174–260K/yr872 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $313K, is 38% above the California median midpoint ($227K) — in the top quarter of Security Engineering salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 190 open Security Engineering jobs in California and 1,036 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience; Security Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 8 years at the median (857 postings).
Education
181 of the 1,036 open Security Engineering jobs (17%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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