Security Engineer II, Enterprise Detection Engineering
San Jose, CA, USA · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Experience
- 1 year for security assessments, security design reviews, or threat modeling; 1 year of coding experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Build and improve high-fidelity detections to protect Google’s enterprise systems and users from external and insider cyber threats, including threats involving AI agents.
What you'll do
- Support threat modeling and define detection requirements for high-risk enterprise areas.
- Help design and implement detection logic, assess security risks, and improve existing detections to reduce false positives.
- Analyze Red Team and Purple Team exercises, remediate detection gaps, and incrementally improve pipelines, testing, and automation.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 1 year of experience with security assessments, security design reviews, or threat modeling.
- 1 year of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.
- Experience with security engineering, computer and network security, and security protocols.
Nice to have
- Experience with query languages or detection rule formats such as SQL, Logica, Yara-L, YARA, or Sigma.
- Knowledge of AI and agentic systems; familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK and threat modeling methodologies.
Pay
$123000 - $174000 (USD) base salary
Tools
macOS, Linux, ChromeOS, SQL, Logica, Yara-L, YARA, Sigma
AI focus
Use AI and traditional strategies to scale and mature detections, and adapt detection workflows to agentic components and internal AI services/agents.
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