Engineering Analyst, Trust and Safety

Overview

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About the job: Trust and Safety (T&S) Ads Account Takeover's main objective is to prevent damage to Google Users and advertisers through accounts by focusing on intelligence that will enable deploying upstream protections and defenses that are focus on developing operational processes. In this role, you will help protect Google Ads accounts and will combine different types of protections and approaches to security. At Google we work hard to earn our users’ trust every day. Trust & Safety is Google’s team of abuse fighting and user trust experts working daily to make the internet a safer place. We partner with teams across Google to deliver bold solutions in abuse areas such as malware, spam and account hijacking. A team of Analysts, Policy Specialists, Engineers, and Program Managers, we work to reduce risk and fight abuse across all of Google’s products, protecting our users, advertisers, and publishers across the globe in over 40 languages.

Responsibilities

• Provide detailed, qualitative and quantitative understanding of the Ads account takeover threat landscape, including designing and improving additional data collection, processes and quality measures.
• Design and build early warning alerts for novel and changing threats, by researching, understanding and experimenting with attacker operations and a thorough understanding of attacker interactions with our systems.
• Manage the response to incidents impacting Google Ads Accounts, including severe incidents, in collaboration with our partner teams (AdsSafety, AdsPlatforms, Account Security).
• Work with our vendor team (located in Hyderabad) to grow the operational work required to protect Google Ads accounts, such as managing escalations and alerts, and maintaining the ground truth quality. Provide the training required and work with Ads Safety to get tooling improvements when needed.
• Perform on-call responsibilities on a rotating basis, including weekend coverage/holidays.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in data analysis, including identifying trends, generating summary statistics, and drawing insights from quantitative and qualitative data.
• 5 years of experience managing projects and defining project scope, goals, and deliverables.
• Experience in one of the following: deriving insights, root-causes and intelligence from data sources, rolling out security policies, measuring and communicating impact, cyber security, protecting accounts against any form of cyber threat or using data analysis, to resolve problems, processes or operations.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in a quantitative discipline.
• 5 years of experience with one or more of the following languages: SQL, R, Python, or C++.
• 5 years of experience with machine learning systems.
• Excellent communication skills.

Compensation and Benefits

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $147,000-$216,000 + 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.

Equal Opportunity

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

Job posting details

• Seniority level: Not Applicable
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: General Business, Strategy/Planning, and Consulting
• Industries: Information Services and Technology, Information and Internet

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