Staff Software Engineer, Cloud and Third-Party Platform Security

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience programming in Java, Python, Golang, C++, or equivalent codebases.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
  
• 5 years of experience building software for data privacy or security (e.g., identity and access management).
  
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
  
• Experience growing engineering sites or large communities, with a commitment to fostering high-trust and high-performing team cultures.
• Experience in security domains, particularly in cloud infrastructure and third-party security controls.
• Proficiency in Go or Python, with a proven track record of designing and evolving distributed systems that handle global-scale data with high availability and security.
• Ability to influence global, executive stakeholders and drive technical alignment across differnet organizations and geographies.

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.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

As the Staff Software Engineer for the newly formed Software Engineering team within the Cloud and Third Party Security team in Singapore, you will be a foundational lead for our new, high-impact Software Engineering team.You will leverage your software development expertise to build scalable, high-quality systems and products to identify, measure and remediate security gaps in Alphabet's usage of public cloud infrastructure, third-party vendors and SaaS. You will act as a technical lead to mentor and help grow software engineers, working cross-functionally with stakeholders across Google to enable achieving our risk reduction goals.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the Cloud and Third-Party Security technical outlook and software engineering roadmap to meet risk reduction goals by resolving ambiguous technical problems, identifying future work, and ensuring technical excellence and manageable complexity.
  
• Implement improvements to the overall quality and maintainability of engineering efforts within the Cloud and Third Party Security domain, using data and technical judgment to prioritize targeted investments.
  
• Collaborate with various cross-functional roles (e.g., Security Engineers, Technical Solutions Consultants, Technical Program Managers) to establish requirements and deploy systems/products that facilitate the rollout of controls to prevent or mitigate the risk of undermanaged Cloud and third-party vendor usage.
• Build and cultivate a high-performing engineering culture through technical mentorship and engineering excellence.