Google

Runs Search and YouTube and builds Gemini AI

Software Engineering Manager - Denial of Service Security Site Reliability Engineering

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeSunnyvale, CA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience is required.
At least 8 years of technical experience in network protocols (TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, HTTP/S), routing, load balancing, or distributed traffic-serving architectures is required.
At least 3 years of experience managing technical teams is required.
At least 3 years of experience managing operational incident response and participating in or supervising on-call rotations is required.
Programming experience in at least one of C, C++, Java, Python, or Go is required.

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing distributed team of Site Reliability Engineers and security engineers; manage career development and performance evaluations, provide technical mentorship, and support the team's expansion under new initiatives.
Drive the technical roadmap for the workstreams, overseeing development of automated threat intelligence and tracking systems to proactively mitigate risks.
Own the team's operational health and interrupt budgets; lead the transition to and execution of an on-call rotation, and drive escalation workflows.
Partner with infrastructure providers and key customer stakeholders to unify protections across ecosystems and support productized offerings.
Guide 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 defense.
Manage a distributed engineering team, oversee real-time incident response, and lead DoSSec's evolution from reactive mitigation to proactive threat intelligence, adversary research, and automated disruption.

Desired Qualifications

A master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering is preferred.
At least 5 years of engineering management experience, with a track record of managing executive individual contributors or other managers, is preferred.
Experience shifting operational engineering teams from reactive, interrupt-driven workflows to automated, intelligence-driven defense models is preferred.
Executive presence and the ability to communicate complex, high-stakes security incidents calmly and decisively to engineering vice presidents, directors, and enterprise cloud customers is preferred.
Extensive background in distributed denial-of-service incident response, malware analysis or reverse engineering, botnet tracking, web application firewall administration, or threat intelligence pipelines is preferred.

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.

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.

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.

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.

About the Company

Google

Runs Search and YouTube and builds Gemini AI

Google runs the world's most used search engine and free services such as YouTube, Android, and Gmail, and it builds the Gemini AI models that work inside them. In 2017, its researchers invented the transformer, the neural network design behind ChatGPT and most other AI chatbots. People use these services without paying, and Google earns most of its money from ads placed beside search results and YouTube videos. Businesses rent computing power and Gemini models through Google Cloud, and Google also sells subscriptions and Pixel phones. Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in 1998 as Stanford PhD students; it is based in Mountain View, California, United States, and is the main business of parent company Alphabet.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
Founded: 1998

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