Google Looking For Anti-Malvertising Analyst, Trust & Safety at Sunnyvale, CA Full Time

Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

3 years of work experience in a related field of Ad security and quality control, Ad Operations, Programmatic buying, Analytics or Consulting

Experience with databases and querying languages (SQL, MySQL).

Preferred qualifications:
Demonstrated creative problem-solving approach and strong analytical skills

Experience working with platforms such as DV3, Authorized Buyers, GAM, or equivalent in a quality control or security/fraud capacity

Experience with fraud risk management and investigations, Ad Security and Quality control, Ad call chain debugging and/or Ad Operations.

Familiarity in one or more of the following areas: querying (SQL), scripting language (Python, JavaScript, TypeScript), HTML

Understanding of the programmatic ad serving process.

Demonstrated ability to identify workflow pain points, optimize and scale processes.

About the job

Malvertising (a portmanteau of “malicious advertising”) is the use of online advertising to spread malware. Malvertising involves injecting malicious or malware-laden advertisements into legitimate online advertising networks and webpages.

The Anti-malvertising team analyzes the intent of bad actors on Google ads systems, probes and uncovers attack mechanisms to spread malware, and takes corrective action, developing defensible systems while building automation to catch bad actors at scale. We work closely with internal and external partners to help build better ads defense systems.

In this role, you will be working with Product Managers, Software Engineers (Machine Learning/Anti-Abuse and Security Engineers), Policy, Sales, and Review teams in devising strategy to outsmart the adversaries. Specifically, you will be working on developing data driven insights to improve the review operations, identify new trends in Malvertising, and automate processes and enforcement. You will also work on feature engineering or signal development of Machine Learning model improvements, reverse engineering JavaScript, develop intelligence on threat actors, etc., to stay one step ahead of the adversaries.

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

Assess and optimize the advertiser onboarding and appeals framework to sustain high barrier to entry for malicious actors.

Identify opportunities/sources for new signals, automation, and workflow improvements.

Provide on-call coverage periodically and respond to escalations from internal and external parties within designated service levels.

Analyze ads call chain to identify different entities (DSP, SSP, Ad Exchange, etc.). Identify and enforce on accounts and creatives. Identify spam patterns and develop regular expressions and signatures.

Review or be exposed to sensitive content occasionally.

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.