Engineering Analyst, Trust and Safety, Ads Account Takeover at Google Sunnyvale, CA

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 126,000 - 181,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Trust & Safety Analyst to protect Google Ads accounts by analyzing threat landscapes and designing early warning signals. You will work with cross-functional teams to understand attacker operations and improve data collection and monitoring.

You will join a global team responsible for defending accounts and reducing abuse, collaborating with vendor teams in Hyderabad and internal Ads Safety groups. A strong background in data analysis and cyber security is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of data analysis experience identifying trends, generating summary statistics, and drawing insights from data.
• 2 years of experience managing projects and defining scope, goals, and deliverables.
• Experience in deriving actionable insights, root causes, and intelligence from data sources, or security-related areas.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality qualitative and quantitative understanding of the Ads account takeover threat landscape.
• Design and build early-warning alerts for novel and changing threats.
• Manage the response to incidents impacting Google Ads Accounts.
• Collaborate with vendor teams (Hyderabad) to scale operational protections and improve tooling.

Skills

Data analysis

Project management

Cyber security

Actionable insights

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

SQL

R

Python

C++

Job description

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in data analysis, including identifying trends, generating summary statistics, and drawing insights from quantitative and qualitative data.
• 2 years of experience managing projects and defining project scope, goals, and deliverables.
• Experience in one of the following areas: deriving actionable 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.
• 2 years of experience or familiarity with machine learning systems.
• 2 years of experience with one or more of the following languages: SQL, R, Python, or C++.
• Excellent communication skills.

About the Job

Fast‑paced, dynamic, and proactive, YouTube’s Trust & Safety team is dedicated to making YouTube a safe place for users, viewers, and content creators around the world to create and express themselves. Whether understanding and solving online content concerns, navigating within global legal frameworks, or writing and enforcing worldwide policy, the Trust & Safety team is on the frontlines of enhancing the YouTube experience, building internet safety, and protecting free speech in our ever‑evolving digital world.

In this role, you will rely on defense in depth when protecting Google Ads accounts. You 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 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.

The US base salary range for this full‑time position is $126,000–$181,000 + 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. 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

• Provide high‑quality, detailed qualitative and quantitative understanding of the Ads account takeover threat landscape, including designing and improving additional data collection, processes, and quality measures to achieve this.
• Design and build early‑warning alerts for novel and changing threats, based on 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 the special response in case of severe incidents in collaboration with our partner teams (AdsSafety, AdsPlatforms, Account Security).
• Work together with our vendor team (located in Hyderabad) to scale the operational work required to protect Google Ads accounts, such as handling escalations and alerts, and maintaining the ground truth quality. Provide the training required and work with Ads Safety to get tooling improvements when needed.

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.