Engineering Analyst, YouTube Trust and Safety Scaled Abuse and Analytics

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 132,000 - 189,000; Full time

Job summary

Google in Mountain View is seeking an Engineering Analyst for the YouTube Trust and Safety team to identify and remove disruptive content and users in a high-volume, global environment.

You will work cross-functionally with engineers and product managers to fight abuse across Google products, using data insights and scalable processes.

The role emphasizes rigorous problem-solving, proactive communication, and protecting users, advertisers, and publishers.

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 SQL (e.g., SQL, MySQL, MapReduce).

Responsibilities

• Identify and remove disruptive content and users on YouTube Trust & Safety at scale.
• Collaborate with engineers and product managers to fight abuse across Google products.
• Use data insights to inform policy decisions and protect users, advertisers, and publishers.

Skills

Data analysis

Project management

Machine learning

SQL

R

Python

C++

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree in quantitative discipline

Tools

MySQL

MapReduce

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 SQL (e.g., SQL, MySQL, MapReduce).

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in a quantitative discipline.


• 2 year of experience with machine learning systems.


• 2 year of experience with one or more of the following languages: SQL, R, Python, or C++.


• Experience leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate the detection and mitigation of platform abuse, including spam, phishing, or violative content.

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.

As an Engineering Analyst on the YouTube Trust and Safety team, you will be directly responsible for ensuring that we identify and remove disruptive content and users, in an environment where hundreds of hours of new content is uploaded every minute, globally.

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