Security-focused SWE building AI agent tooling for vulnerability response

Interview prep for Google's Core team Information Security Engineering role in Singapore, building Go back-end systems and Python AI agents that automate vulnerability triage and variant analysis. This blends software engineering fundamentals with applied security and AI-agent tooling, not a pure pentesting/red-team role.

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Likely format

Google SWE loop: recruiter screen, coding phone screen(s), then onsite/virtual onsite rounds covering coding, Googleyness/behavioral, and role-related security/systems design.

What this interview tests

Go back-end system design and implementation
Python AI agent design for automating security workflows
Vulnerability triage, variant analysis, and remediation processes
Data structures and algorithms
Reasoning about risk/correctness when AI agents make security-relevant decisions
Collaborating with information security engineers and developer teams

Common question themes

Coding in Go: implement or debug a back-end component

Design an agent-based system to triage incoming vulnerability reports

How would you build tooling to automate variant analysis and reduce manual workload

Data structures and algorithms coding question

How do you validate an AI agent's output before it acts on a security-sensitive decision

Behavioral: collaborating cross-functionally to embed security into development lifecycle

How candidates describe it

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