Engineering Analyst, Trust and Safety, AdSpam

Google; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 132,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental & Vision Insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off 20 days/year

Sick time 40 hours/year (69 hours in/=

Maternity Leave 28-30 weeks

Baby Bonding Leave 18 weeks

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Google is seeking a data-driven Analyst for its Trust & Safety team to protect users and advertisers across Google’s products, including Search, Maps, Gmail, and Google Ads.

You will analyze vast data, investigate fraud, and work with engineers and product managers to build scalable anti-abuse systems that promote trust and safety on a global scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in data analysis, identifying trends, and drawing insights from data.
• 2 years of experience managing projects and defining scope, goals and deliverables.
• Master's degree in a quantitative discipline is preferred.
• 2 years of experience with SQL, R, Python, or C++.
• 2 years of experience with machine learning systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Apply advanced statistical methods to large data sets to analyze impact of abuse on the Video ads ecosystem.
• Perform fraud and spam investigations using various data sources and drive anti-abuse experiments.
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to improve workflows via automation and anti-abuse systems.
• Investigate complex fraud and develop scalable solutions for non-compliant publisher inventory, focusing on Video ads.
• Participate in on-call responsibilities including weekends/holidays and handle sensitive content.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

C++

Data analysis

ML systems

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree in quantitative discipline

Job description

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Kirkland, WA, USA; Austin, TX, USA.

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.

Preferred qualifications

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

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.

The mission of the Trust and Safety Ad Traffic Quality team is to make the ads ecosystem universally trusted and defended against invalid Traffic. We analyze billions of events and create scalable methods to stop motivated fraudsters from causing harm. When we get this right, we help users, advertisers, publishers, and Google gain information and monetize the internet safely and usefully.

On this team, you are a big-picture thinker and strategic leader. You will understand the user's point of view and will be passionate about using your combined technical, sales and customer service acumen to protect our users. You will work globally and cross-functionally with Google developers and Product Managers to navigate challenging online safety situations and handle abuse and fraud cases at Google speed.

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $132000 - $189000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

• Apply advanced statistical methods to large complex data sets to analyze impact of abuse on the Video ads 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 Video ads.
• Perform on-call responsibilities on a rotating basis, including weekend coverage/holidays. This role works with sensitive content or situations and may be exposed to graphic, controversial, or upsetting topics or content.

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.