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Software Engineering Manager, Denial of Service Security SRE

Google

Location
Onsite (Sunnyvale, CA)
Compensation
$207k - $300k/yr
Employment
Full-time
Level
Senior Level
Posted 1 week ago

About the role

Google Cloud's Site Reliability Engineering team builds and runs large-scale, fault-tolerant systems to ensure reliability and uptime for internal and external customers. This role leads a distributed team of SREs and security engineers to evolve DoS defense from reactive mitigation to proactive threat intelligence and automated disruption.

Skills

Engineering Management Site Reliability Engineering Network Protocols TCP/IP BGP DNS HTTP/S Routing Load Balancing Distributed Systems Incident Response On-Call Operations Programming Threat Intelligence DDoS Defense Security Engineering

Benefits

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability
  • Paid Parental Leave

Perks

  • Bonus
  • Equity

Full job details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of technical experience in network protocols (TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, HTTP/S), routing, load balancing, or distributed traffic serving architectures.
  • 3 years of experience in managing technical teams.
  • 3 years of experience managing operational incident response and participating in or supervising on-call rotations.
  • Experience programming in one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Go.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
  • 5 years of engineering management experience, with a proven track record of managing executive individual contributors or managing other managers.
  • Experience shifting operational engineering teams from reactive interrupt-driven workflows to automated, intelligence-driven defense models.
  • Demonstrated executive presence and ability to communicate complex, high-stakes security incidents calmly and decisively to engineering VPs, Directors, and enterprise Cloud customers.
  • Extensive background in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) incident response, malware analysis/reverse engineering, botnet tracking, WAF administration, or threat intelligence pipelines.

About the job:

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. SRE ensures that Google Cloud's services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to customer's needs and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally SRE’s will keep an ever-watchful eye on our systems capacity and performance.

Much of our software development focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation. On the SRE team, you’ll have the opportunity to manage the complex challenges of scale which are unique to Google Cloud, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis and large-scale system design. SRE's culture of intellectual curiosity, problem solving and openness is key to its success. Our organization brings together people with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We encourage them to collaborate, think big and take risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on meaningful projects, while we also strive to create an environment that provides the support and mentorship needed to learn and grow.

In this role, you will manage a distributed engineering team, oversee real-time incident response, and lead DoSSec's evolution from reactive mitigation into proactive threat intelligence, adversary research, and automated disruption.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

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

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing, distributed team of Site Reliability Engineerings (SREs) and security engineers. Manage career development, performance evaluations, and technical mentorship while supporting the team's expansion under new initiatives.
  • Drive the Workstreams technical roadmap, overseeing the development of automated threat intelligence and tracking systems to mitigate risks proactively.
  • Own the team's operational health and interrupt budgets. Lead the transition to and execution of a on-call rotation, actively driving escalation workflows.
  • Partner closely with infrastructure providers and key customer stakeholders to unify protections across ecosystems and support productized offerings.
  • Guide the publication of internal threat research and collaborate with internal intelligence partners and external communities to establish Google as an industry leader in Denial of Service (DoS) defense.