Senior Security Engineer, Security Research

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Location: Munich, Germany; Germany

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Experience Level: Mid

Mid Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

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Info X In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:

• In-office locations: Munich, Germany.
• Remote location(s): Germany.

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

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

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 high-impact security vulnerabilities. We also 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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Locations: Munich, Germany; Germany

Remote eligible

Experience Level: Mid

Mid Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.