Senior Security Engineer, Uppercase Research

Senior Security Engineer, Uppercase Research

Google Austin, TX, USA ;
San Francisco, CA, USA ;
Remote eligible

Applicants in Los Angeles County: qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. The application window is open until at least July 24, 2026. For San Francisco, the same consideration applies under the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. In Washington state, benefits are available to all eligible US based employees.

Benefits include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours per year (increased to 69 hours per year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short‑Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Google’s hybrid workplace includes remote and in‑office roles. In‑office locations:
Austin, TX;
San Francisco, CA. Remote location(s):
United States.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience leading security assessments, threat modeling, or security design reviews for systems.
• 5 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages (e.g., Python, Golang, Java, C++).
• 5 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network security, and security protocols.

• Experience designing, building or implementing LLMs and autonomous agent frameworks to accelerate threat detection life cycles, automate security operations triage, or orchestrate self‑healing detection pipelines.
• Experience in security research, advanced threat hunting, and signals development across endpoint or cloud data sources (e.g., Google Cloud, Cloud computing platform, Kubernetes).
• Ability to scope ambiguous security problems, evaluate systemic risks, and communicate technical security strategies effectively to both engineering teams and executive stakeholders.

There’s no such thing as a "safe system" — only safer systems. Our Security team works to create and maintain the safest operating environment for Google’s users and developers. As a Security Engineer, you help protect network boundaries, keep computer systems and network devices hardened against attacks, and provide security services to protect highly sensitive data like passwords and customer information.

Security Engineers work directly with network equipment and actively monitor our systems for attacks and intrusions. You also work with software engineers to proactively identify and fix security flaws and vulnerabilities.

You use your industry experience to own and drive the resolution of complex security incidents, policy questions and technical security issues.

Uppercase is a specialized team of security engineers dedicated to identifying and mitigating threat actors before they can achieve their mission. Originating from Alphabet's moonshot factory, X, and developed within Chronicle (now Google Sec Ops), we leverage expertise in big data, cybersecurity, machine learning, and large‑scale cloud computing to engineer next‑generation security solutions. Our goal is to partner with the broader security community to ensure the advantage remains with those fighting cybercrime.

In this role, you will focus on building, scaling, and orchestrating autonomous security operations within Google security operations (Sec Ops) (formerly Chronicle). You will design and deploy intelligent agentic workflows, including threat hunting agents and automated detection engineering agents, to match the velocity of modern threat actors. By leveraging Google’s internal cloud and endpoint threat intelligence, you will transform static security workflows into self‑correcting, LLM‑driven pipelines that automate the entire detection lifecycle from discovery to rule deployment.

US: $174,000 - $253,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits