Google

Senior Security Engineer, Security Research

Google Munich, Bavaria, Germany · €128K–€131K/yr

Software Development · 10,001+ employees

4 h ago
security Senior (5-10 yrs) Full-time Germany
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About the role

Conduct vulnerability research and exploit development on security-critical software such as iOS, MacOS, and XNU. Create tools and infrastructure to scale research efforts and engage with the defensive community by publishing findings.

What they look for

Reverse engineering Vulnerability research Exploit development Technical writing iOS security MacOS security XNU kernel Security analysis Tooling development Infrastructure development Security research Defensive improvements Vulnerability assessment Communication skills Teamwork

Requirements

Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience and at least 5 years of experience in reverse engineering. Candidates should have a strong background in vulnerability research, exploitation, and excellent technical writing skills.

Benefits

Bonus Equity Health Insurance

Full description

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience with reverse engineering.
  • Experience with vulnerability and exploitation.
  • Experience with technical writing.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Ability to demonstrate significant depth of understanding in one or more vulnerability research security fields.
  • Excellent team-work, organizational and communication skills.
  • Track record of excellent published security research.

About the job:

Our Security team works to create and maintain the safest operating environment for Google's users and developers. Security Engineers work with network equipment and actively monitor our systems for attacks and intrusions. In this role, you will also work with software engineers to proactively identify and fix security flaws and vulnerabilities.

Project Zero is a vendor-agnostic security research team housed within Google. The team aims to improve user security and increase the cost of targeted attacks by conducting industry leading security research.

Our mission is to make zero-day exploits hard. Project Zero team members perform vulnerability research on security-critical software, and use their research results to drive industry-wide defensive improvements.

We build tooling to scale security research, and create new methodologies for discovering security vulnerabilities. We also use in-house exploit development to provide relevant and actionable guidance for long-term defenses and mitigations, and engage in non-technical work such as driving improvements to industry security processes and best practices.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Germany: €128000 - €131000 (EUR) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google. Responsibilities:

  • Conduct vulnerability research and exploit development, specifically in (but not limited to) iOS, MacOS and XNU.
  • Create tools and infrastructure that enables the team to scale up our research efforts.
  • Engage the wider defensive community by publishing your results.
  • Work with other security engineers on the analysis of, and response to vulnerabilities reported by other parties.

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