Staff Software Engineer, Photos Security, Privacy
Google · Mountain View, CA
staff
Security Engineer
tech_leadership
· Posted May 11, 2026
$207,000 – $300,000
USD per year
Skills
About this role
Google is hiring a staff-level Security Engineer based in Mountain View, CA. The posting calls out experience with Data Structures, Security, IAM, Vulnerability Management. Compensation is listed at $207,000–$300,000 per year.
- Role
- Security Engineer
- Function
- security
- Level
- staff
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Mountain View, CA
- Posted
- May 11, 2026
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Job description
from Google careersGoogle'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.
Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. Photos is one of the most sought after products at Google and is looking for both client-side (web and mobile), with server-side (search, storage, serving) and machine intelligence (learning, computer vision) Software Engineers. We are dedicated to making Google experiences centered around the user.
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