As the Principal Engineer for Google Compute Platform Security, you will be the technical authority responsible for the security posture of Google Compute Engine. This role involves architecting defenses for multi-tenant orchestration and ensuring compliance in regulated cloud environments. You will lead efforts to mitigate emerging threats and vulnerabilities, particularly those accelerated by AI technologies. Your work will span both control and data planes, focusing on hardware-level isolation and security.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of professional software development experience, or 13 years with an advanced degree.
• Experience architecting, developing, and securing low-level systems software across the virtualization and operating systems stack.

• Serve as the overall technical authority and executive owner for GCE Platform Security.
• Formulate architectural and operational defenses against autonomous agentic threat vectors.
• Architect robust, hardware-level defenses and isolation boundaries to mitigate CPU vulnerabilities.
• Lead security defenses and privilege reduction across hypervisor technologies and low-level runtimes.
• Drive the architectural outlook for host security and isolation, advancing zero-trust host architectures.

• Employees at Google are often offered benefits like comprehensive health insurance, 401(k) matching, and flexible work arrangements, among other benefits.