Google Looking For Scaled Abuse Analyst, Google Play at Austin, TX Full Time

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Austin, TX, USA; Redwood City, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, related field, or equivalent practical experience.

5 years of experience in statistical analysis and coding with Python and SQL/MySQL.

Experience with fraud, security, and threat analysis in the context of internet-related products/activities.

Experience using mathematical techniques to provide analysis and recommendations.

Preferred qualifications:
Experience using external Python libraries (e.g., Numpy, Scikit, and Pandas for data exploration and visualization).

Experience in Machine Learning (e.g., tools, prepare training sets, and train classifiers).

Experience with statistical data analysis such as linear models, multivariate analysis, stochastic models, and sampling methods.

Demonstrated skills in selecting the right statistical tools given a data analysis problem.

Effective written and verbal communication skills.

Excellent leadership with willingness to teach and learn new techniques.

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 a Scaled Abuse Analyst, you will bring an analytical focus and statistical methods to a diverse range of challenges ranging from measuring quality, developing abuse metrics, and prioritizing key initiatives across Google Play, particularly relating to developer and app abuse. You will evaluate and improve the Google Play ecosystem. You’ll approach each data source with an appropriate degree of skepticism, understand and quantify how far the source can be trusted, apply critical thinking to the data, and think through the impact.

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

Conduct analysis that includes data gathering, exploratory data analysis, feature identification, selection, and validation.

Build analysis pipelines to provide insights at scale, develop comprehensive understanding of Google data structures and metrics, and advocate for changes where needed for both product development and improvement.

Interact cross-functionally with a wide variety of people and teams across Engineering, Policy, Analytics, and cross-product abuse fighting teams.

Leverage Google Play domain expertise to extract relevant features from datasets for use in abuse prevention efforts.

Work closely with engineers to identify opportunities for design, and assess improvements to Google products.

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.