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Security Engineer, Detection and Response, Infrastructure Threats

Google
mid-level
Location

Zurich, Switzerland

Work Type

Onsite

Seniority

mid-level

Posted

July 9, 2026


Total Compensation
€265,000
Yearly Savings (Comfortable)
€75,000
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Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 1 year of experience in security analysis, risk modeling, or security detection scoped work.
  • Experience with security and security analysis.
  • Experience coding in one or more general purpose languages.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 3 years of experience in responding to security problems in target-rich environments, looking at security alerts, forensic analysis, or incident response.
  • Programming experience in Python, Go, C/C++, or Java.
  • Expertise in analysis of large data sets or logs to find patterns or interesting activities (using SQL, or custom tools).
  • Demonstrated expertise with threat detection development or threat hunting.

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.

Part of Google's Detection and Response team, we monitor Google’s network and systems for threats to information security. This team builds detection to secure our production systems from insider threats, hackers, and exploits. We strive to accomplish this in the least intrusive way possible, protecting Google’s culture and innovative practices.

Responsibilities

  • Build new detection capabilities to protect our Google intellectual property, business data, and user data.
  • Hunt for and respond to security events on Google's networks as part of our 24/7 global operation.
  • Investigate a wide variety of security events across various Alphabet systems to assess threats to Google or its customers.
  • Collaborate with teams across Google to model insider risks and cultivate new data sources.
  • Participate in response to large-scale security incidents.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .

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