Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Google's Security team works to create and maintain a safe operating environment for its users and developers. The Threat Operations Lead will manage Google Defense Intelligence, directing investigative strategy and operational execution for security engineers and analysts, overseeing complex threat campaign investigations, and translating intelligence into systemic mitigations and strategic risk assessments. The role also involves scaling global defenses, integrating advanced analytics and agentic workflows, and coordinating responses to emerging threats.
Responsibilities
- Threat hunting and advanced attribution to unmask and disrupt sophisticated global adversary campaigns
- Provide high-fidelity strategic assessments and threat landscape analysis to guide leadership risk management and enable defense
- Drive sustainable capacity and performance through toil-reducing automation and streamlined workflows
- Oversee the integration of agentic workflows and advanced analytics into core investigative capabilities
- Manage early-warning escalation life-cycles and cross-functional response to emerging, high-exposure threats
Skills
- • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- • 10 years of experience with security assessments or security design reviews or threat modeling
- • 10 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network security and security protocols
- • 10 years of experience leading teams in a technical capacity or leading technical risk analysis in an enterprise environment
- • Experience in people management
- • Deep technical expertise in threat research, exploit and vulnerability analysis, and the execution of intelligence-led disruption strategies
- • Expertise in developing specialized teams to identify, analyze, and counter emerging threats and tactics
- • Track record of building specialized technical teams, optimizing organizational health, and driving operational excellence
- • Demonstrated ability to scale threat analysis and accelerate intelligence velocity using agentic workflows
- • Exceptional communication skills in translating complex analysis and campaigns for leadership and executives
Benefits
- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
- Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
- Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
- Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
- Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
- Holidays: 13 paid days per year
- 25% bonus target
- Equity
- Remote locations: District of Columbia, USA; California, USA; Georgia, USA; Illinois, USA; New York, USA; Washington, USA
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