Google Hiring for Anti-Malvertising Analyst, Trust & Safety at Sunnyvale, CA Full Time

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.