Staff Security Engineer Manager, Cloud Abuse Security Engineering

Google Cloud’s Cloud CISO is focused on ensuring that every product ships with the strongest security posture possible. In this role, you will lead the Cloud Abuse Security Engineering (CASE) team, setting technical direction and driving scalable abuse detection and mitigation across GCP.

Role Overview

You will manage and lead the CASE organization within Cloud CISO. The team’s mission is to safeguard Google, its customers, users, and the internet from abuse threats that originate in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) products. The work involves defining a roadmap and architectural strategy to detect, prevent, and mitigate platform abuse using network and host-level telemetry. You will also partner with product teams, Google Cloud Support and Business Platform, Trust and Safety, Legal, and broader leadership to translate intelligence into actionable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Manage, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of security engineers dedicated to protecting Google Cloud, its customers, and the internet from platform abuse.
• Define and deliver the technical roadmap for the CASE team, including strategy for generating actionable intelligence and insights to detect, mitigate, and prevent abusive behaviors originating from GCP.
• Provide architectural leadership for researching new detection techniques and ensure delivery of scalable, high-fidelity detection systems that identify malicious activity such as botnets, DDoS, and outbound attacks using network and host-level telemetry.
• Serve as a strategic partner to Google Cloud product teams, Google Cloud Support and Business Platform, Trust and Safety, Legal, and broader leadership.
• Oversee the lifecycle of internal tools and infrastructure used to collect, process, and analyze abuse reports and threat intelligence data at planet scale.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with security assessments, security design reviews, or threat modeling.
• 8 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network security, and security protocols.
• 8 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.
• 3 years of experience leading teams in a technical capacity or leading technical risk analysis in an enterprise environment.
• Experience in people management.
• 10 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (for example: Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role overseeing strategic projects, with 3 years of experience in a people management, supervision, or team leadership role.
• Experience in security engineering with a focus on abuse detection, network security, or threat intelligence.

Technologies

• Python
• C
• C++
• Java
• JavaScript

Compensation and Location

• Location: Sunnyvale, CA (onsite)
• Salary: USD 207,000 - 300,000 per year
• US total package includes a 20% bonus target plus equity and benefits

About the Team

Google Security works to maintain the safest operating environment for Google’s users and developers. The Cloud CISO organization is responsible for driving Cloud’s product security strategy and ensuring products ship as securely as possible. The Cloud Abuse Security Engineering team (CASE) is dedicated to detecting, preventing, and mitigating platform abuse across GCP products by safeguarding Google, its customers, users, and the broader internet from threats originating within Google Cloud.