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As Principal Engineer for GCE Platform Security, you will serve as the premier technical authority, executive architect, and overall owner for the end-to-end security posture of Google Compute Engine (GCE) - protecting the foundational global infrastructure that powers Google Cloud, Core Google services, and advanced AI research labs and mission-critical enterprise workloads.
In this high-impact strategic role, your leadership spans the complete architectural continuum between the distributed Control Plane and the foundational Data Plane. Across the control plane, you will architect robust, scalable defenses for multi-tenant orchestration, resource lifecycle management, zero-trust identity and access boundaries, supply-chain integrity, and high-assurance compliance for regulated and public-sector cloud environments. Across the node data plane, you will lead deep systems security architecture across hypervisors, virtual machine monitors (VMMs), host operating systems, kernel subsystems, and hardware-level isolation mechanisms.
Crucially, you will navigate a rapidly transforming threat landscape shaped by the emergence of agentic threat vectors enabled through advanced LLMs, where automated, AI-driven vulnerability discovery and exploit generation compress attacker timelines to machine speed. You will lead proactive defense-in-depth across the platform - mitigating hardware and microarchitectural CPU vulnerabilities (e.g., speculative execution, transient execution side-channels, and address space isolation), eliminating memory safety exploitation risks across the virtualization stack, and advancing host deprivileging and zero-trust host architectures.
Furthermore, you will advocate for next-generation virtualization security designs - leveraging custom silicon for isolation, establishing multi-domain security boundaries, and architecting secure runtime substrates for next-generation AI workloads, high-density sandboxed execution environments, and massive accelerator clusters.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $307000 - $427000 (USD) + 30% bonus target + equity + benefits
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