Security & Compliance Topics
Governance, compliance frameworks, regulatory requirements, compliance implementation, and compliance-driven risk management. Covers compliance frameworks (SOX, GDPR, HIPAA, FCPA, etc.), regulatory interpretation, compliance control design, audit and control effectiveness evaluation, and compliance process management. For operational security implementation and technical threat mitigation, see Security Engineering & Operations.
Security and Compliance in Google Products
Knowledge of product security capabilities and compliance controls and the ability to map regulatory and enterprise requirements to concrete technical controls. Candidates should be able to explain encryption at rest and in transit, identity and access management patterns, audit and logging practices, regional data residency options, secure networking and perimeter controls, key management choices, and how to present certification evidence such as Service Organization Control 2, General Data Protection Regulation, and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act to customers. Interviewers probe how you design compliant architectures, communicate residual risk and trade offs, propose compensating controls, and work with legal and security teams to operationalize compliance requirements.
Industry Specific Requirements
Focuses on tailoring solutions to the constraints and needs of particular industry verticals. Candidates should discuss how requirements differ across sectors such as financial services, healthcare, media, retail, and telecom; address regulatory, privacy, and data residency concerns; propose architectures that meet auditability and encryption needs; describe industry reference patterns and certification considerations; and explain how operational practices such as retention policies, service level agreements, and compliance controls change design and implementation choices.
Security and Compliance in Enterprise Environments
Assess knowledge of security controls and regulatory requirements relevant to enterprise solutions. Candidates should explain authentication and authorization patterns, encryption at rest and in transit, identity and access management, network security architectures, key management, logging and auditing, and incident response. They should be able to map technical controls to regulatory frameworks such as Service Organization Controls two, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, General Data Protection Regulation and Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, and describe how to operationalize compliance during design and deployment.
Security and Compliance Architecture
Architecting systems to meet security requirements and regulatory and compliance obligations. Candidates should understand how to embed data classification, data governance, encryption, least privilege access, audit trails and logging, secure design patterns, and threat modeling into architectures. Expect discussion of how architectural choices affect obligations under common regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, and System and Organization Controls frameworks. Topics include documenting architecture for compliance reviewers, retention and data residency considerations, denial of service mitigation and web application firewall strategies, and balancing security controls with usability and operational cost. Candidates should be able to describe when to engage legal and compliance teams and how to design for auditability and evidence capture.