mid Security Engineer ic 5+ yrs Bachelor's · Posted Jul 3, 2026

About this role

Google is hiring a mid-level Security Engineer based in Zürich, Switzerland. The posting calls out experience with GCP, Networking, Security, NLP and roughly 5+ years of relevant work. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Role
Security Engineer
Function
security
Level
mid
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
Zürich, Switzerland
Experience
5+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Posted
Jul 3, 2026
AI Summary
Security engineer developing infrastructure security solutions for Google Cloud products. Ensures secure product launches, builds security tooling and frameworks, and drives product security strategy across planet-scale systems. Requires 5 years each in software development, product testing, design/architecture, and security engineering.

Job description

from Google careers

Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. 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 Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. 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.

The Cloud Chief Information Security Office Security Engineering team is responsible for ensuring that every Google Cloud product ships as secure as possible. You will do so by increasing the assurance levels of security in the infrastructure underlying all products, 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. Cloud Chief Information Security Office Security Engineering owns and drives the product security strategy for Google Cloud. You will work with almost every aspect of Google’s infrastructure and on solving planet-scale infrastructure security problems that have societal-level impacts.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge 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.

Responsibilities

  • Perform security reviews, research and reproduce vulnerabilities, design secure protocols and systems, and write tests and fuzzers.
  • Review and develop secure operational practices, and provide security guidance for engineers and support staff.
  • Review designs and drive towards defense in depth and security by default, both with one-time reviews and longer term engagements.
  • Look for vulnerabilities with techniques including reverse engineering, fuzzing, and static analysis.
  • Respond to vulnerabilities with repros, variant analysis, mitigations, and hardening.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience in software development.
  • 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
  • 5 years of experience with software design and architecture.
  • 5 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network security and security protocols.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
  • Experience in static analysis or dynamic analysis.
  • Consulting experience.
  • Experience building security tooling.
  • Ability to influence others.
  • Strong communication skills.

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