Lead Security Engineer, gTech Risk Solutions
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in security engineering, threat modeling, systems design, and security architecture.
- 3 years of experience with coding (e.g., C++, Java, Go, or Python).
- Experience designing security controls for teams with operational systems and cloud infrastructure deployment.
- Experience developing, deploying and monitoring security policies in partnership with centralized security functions.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience architecting enterprise-scale security tools, access control systems, or observability platforms.
- Familiarity with Google's central security infrastructure (Ganpati, MDB groups, Zanzibar, or S2).
- Deep technical understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs), AI security risks (prompt injection, data poisoning), and the deployment of deterministic security harnesses.
- Strong capability to influence senior engineering partners on critical design decisions.
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.
gTech Risk Solutions is executing a strategic transformation from a reactive, program-led organization to a proactive engineering powerhouse. Operating as a federated security partner to Google's central security organizations, we design and build highly contextualized security solutions tailored specifically for the gTech business ecosystem. Our mission is upfront risk prevention through technical delivery excellence, shifting the paradigm from unsustainable "risk-chasing" to "prevention by design."
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Ireland: €122000 - €125000 (EUR) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Design the security architecture and validation frameworks (e.g., prompt injection resilience, data flow constraints) for agentic platforms.
- Design technical standards and automated workflows for vulnerability auto-mitigation to ensure alignment with global SLO timelines.
- Architect automated access control systems, integration templates, and data flow constraints to proactively prevent access abuse and data exfiltration.
- Align all technical architectures with central security design standards, serving as the primary design conduit to central infrastructure.
- Create precise, robust technical designs to the Operational Engineering (Build) team for software fulfilment.
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