November 5, 2025

Senior Security Validation Engineer, STS, Mandiant Consulting

Senior • Hybrid • On-site • Remote

$166,000 - $244,000/yr

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience in an offensive or defensive security role with experience in Mitre ATT&CK and attacker tools.
  • 5 years of experience coding in one or more general purpose languages.
  • 5 years of experience working with security controls in either an endpoint (EDR) or network (IDS, IPS) capacity.
  • 1 year of experience leading teams in a technical capacity or leading technical risk analysis in an enterprise environment.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience investigating and analyzing security vulnerabilities to identify gaps in Cyber Defense tools in a customer environment.
  • Understanding of cyber defense operations (e.g., incident response, containment, remediation process, cyber threat intelligence, security architecture).
  • Understanding of security controls for common platforms and devices, including Linux and firewalls or IDS/IPS.
  • Ability to simplify and communicate ideas.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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.

As a Senior Security Engineer, you will build, maintain, and enable technologies, tools, data sets, and metrics to deliver actionable and timely operational reporting that drives cyber defense initiatives. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams across Mandiant Consulting, client Information Technology (IT) resources, and business owners to define requirements and deliver recommendations focused on operations required to support the client's Cyber Defense (CD) capabilities.

Part of Google Cloud, Mandiant is a recognized leader in dynamic cyber defense, threat intelligence and incident response services. Mandiant's cybersecurity expertise has earned the trust of security professionals and company executives around the world. Our unique combination of renowned frontline experience responding to some of the most complex breaches, nation-state grade threat intelligence, machine intelligence, and the industry's best security validation ensures that Mandiant knows more about today's advanced threats than anyone.

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

  • Simplify and communicate business issues related to information security by leveraging and utilizing various analytic tools and platforms to synthesize disparate data sources.
  • Provide expertise in data analytics to drive operational metrics and reporting that improves cyber defense capabilities.
  • Prioritize and articulate findings that are relevant, actionable, and timely to security leadership.
  • Develop dashboards, analytic methodologies, and key outputs within Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), data analytics, and other reporting tools while engaging and collaborating with client stakeholders and other groups within customer environments to drive resolution for security issues.