Software Engineer, Safe Coding - Singapore

Product area

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Job description

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

Additional job description

Google’s Product Security team is team of over 300 engineers in Zurich, Munich, Sunnyvale, Seattle, San Francisco and some other exciting places around the globe. Our mission is to keep Google products secure and their users safe.

Safe Coding contributes to that mission by managing some of the biggest risks in software security. We innovate at scale by making secure coding effortless, for everyone. We are bootstrapping our presence in Asia-Pacific (APAC) by establishing a brand-new Singapore hub.

In this role, you will play a massive part in establishing our engineering culture and bringing innovation to our new location.

Qualifications

Job responsibilities

• Deliver first-class software engineering and take deep technical ownership of critical projects and system designs.
• Partner closely with technical leads, Product Managers (PMs), and Technical Program Managers/Program Managers (T/PgMs) to execute on the team's goal and Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy. Drive the successful technical transfer and implementation of critical new projects.
• Stay on the rapidly developing agentic threat landscape and boldly embrace the dynamically changing AI environment. Move fast, write exceptional code, and think outside the box to engineer new solutions to old problems.
• Work tightly with partner teams in Google's Software Supply Chain Integrity program, engineering stakeholders, and industry peers to seamlessly integrate our security solutions at an unprecedented scale.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• 2 years of experience building software for data privacy or security (e.g., identity and access management).

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with building and managing developer ecosystems, package managers and build systems.
• Experience with designing developer experiences and workflows.
• Experience with coordinating cross-organizationally and setting up successful partnerships.
• Knowledge of software supply chain security issues, vulnerability management, or a related field.
• Participation in open-source development, leading open-source projects, or projects with significant open source dependencies.