October 6, 2025

Senior Security Engineer, Abuse and AI VRP

Senior • On-site

$166,000 - $244,000/yr

Seattle, WA

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.
  • 5 years of experience working in a security field such as application security, network security, or incident response.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience with generative AI or similar AI/ML systems.
  • Experience working with external parties or in a publicly-facing role.
  • Experience working in bug bounties.
  • Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills with attention to detail in an ever-changing environment.

About the job

There's no such thing as a "safe system" - only safer systems. Our Security team works to create and maintain the safest operating environment for Google's users and developers. As a Security Engineer, you help protect network boundaries, keep computer systems and network devices hardened against attacks and provide security services to protect highly sensitive data like passwords and customer information. Security Engineers work directly with network equipment and actively monitor our systems for attacks and intrusions. You also work with software engineers to proactively identify and fix security flaws and vulnerabilities.

You use your industry experience to own and drive the resolution of complex security incidents, policy questions and technical security issues.

The Abuse and AI Vulnerability Rewards Program (VRP) is a bug bounty program which covers abusive use of Google's systems, including Generative AI systems such as Gemini. The VRP team is responsible for assessing reports from external security researchers, interacting directly with researchers and product teams, deciding on rewards for reporters, and managing the resolution and coordinated disclosure of vulnerabilities.

As a Senior Security Engineer, you will be responsible for reviewing a queue of externally-reported security and abuse issues, determining whether reports are valid, replicating reports where feasible, and opening bugs with product teams for resolution. Additionally, the Senior Security Engineer will act as an internal point of technical escalation for team members, including unblocking issue reproduction, providing feedback on severity, and similar.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $166,000-$244,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Assess the validity and severity of externally-reported security and abuse issues, including issues impacting GenAI products.
  • Recreate externally-reported security and abuse issues, capturing information required by the product teams to understand and resolve.
  • Serve as a point of technical escalation for the first-line triage team. Manage communication between researchers and product teams.
  • Assess reported bugs to determine impact, and what, if any, reward should be issued to the researcher under VRP rules.
  • Participate in the VRP community and engage in cross-team projects to improve the bug bounty experience for all reporters.