Engineering Analyst, Trust and Safety, AdSpam - Google
Kirkland, WA
About the Job
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 1 year of experience in data analysis, including identifying trends, generating summary statistics, and drawing insights from quantitative and qualitative data.
- 1 year of experience managing projects and defining project scope, goals, and deliverables.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in a quantitative discipline, or a related field.
- 3 years of experience in cyber security, data analysis, programming, and scripting.
- Experience querying and analyzing large, complex datasets/data warehouses to pull out relevant insights, metrics, and trends.
- Experience with machine learning systems.
- Experience with SQL or Python.
About the job
Trust & Safety team members are tasked with identifying and taking on the biggest problems that challenge the safety and integrity of our products. They use technical know-how, excellent problem-solving skills, user insights, and proactive communication to protect users and our partners from abuse across Google products like Search, Maps, Gmail, and Google Ads. On this team, you're a big-picture thinker and strategic team-player with a passion for doing what’s right. You work globally and cross-functionally with Google engineers and product managers to identify and fight abuse and fraud cases at Google speed - with urgency. And you take pride in knowing that every day you are working hard to promote trust in Google and ensuring the highest levels of user safety.
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 diverse 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
- Apply advanced statistical methods to large complex data sets to analyze impact of abuse on the Android ecosystem.
- Perform fraud and spam investigations using various data sources, identify product vulnerabilities and drive anti-abuse experiments to prevent abuse.
- Work with engineers and stakeholders to improve workflows via process improvements, automation and anti-abuse system creation.
- Conduct complex fraud investigations using data and identify gaps in current defenses, explore/experiment with new signals and develop solutions for scalable enforcement on non-compliant publisher inventory with a focus on Android.
- Work directly with Product, Engineering, and Trust and Safety teams to prevent abuse by changing policies and closing product loopholes.
