Security Analytics Engineer, Chrome Extensions

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement benefits

PTO 20 days

Sick time

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Holidays

Job summary

Google in Kirkland, WA, is seeking an Engineering Analyst for Chrome Extensions Security within the Trust and Safety group. The role focuses on investigations, abuse pattern analysis, and building AI-driven protections for the Chrome Web Store and related Google platforms.

You will reverse engineer potentially harmful extensions, collaborate with engineering and product teams, and help scale detection methods while mentoring security reviewers. US compensation is competitive with strong benefits.

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.
• Experience with quantitative and qualitative analysis, using languages like SQL and Python.

Responsibilities

• Conduct investigations to catch harmful and abusive behavior and actors, enforce our product policies, learning abuse patterns, and establishing ground truth data to train automated systems.
• Reverse engineer potentially harmful extensions (written in JavaScript) to understand their operations and impact on the Chrome ecosystem.
• Design AI-powered and automated solutions that enable scalable identification of malware, spam, and other harmful extensions.
• Collaborate with other teams to develop and deploy new detection methods and signals, train and mentor a large team of security reviewers.
• Enhance operational workflows via AI integration, process improvements, and identifying automation opportunities.

Skills

Data analysis

SQL

Python

Qualitative data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

JavaScript

PHP

Static/Dynamic analysis

Job description

Google in Kirkland, WA, is seeking an Engineering Analyst for Chrome Extensions Security within the Trust and Safety group. The role focuses on investigations, abuse pattern analysis, and building AI-driven protections for the Chrome Web Store and related Google platforms.

You will reverse engineer potentially harmful extensions, collaborate with engineering and product teams, and help scale detection methods while mentoring security reviewers. US compensation is competitive with strong benefits.