Google – Looking For Security Analyst, Android Security Operations 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; Kirkland, WA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

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

3 years of experience in application-level vulnerability testing, code-level security auditing, working with languages (e.g., Java).

Preferred qualifications:
3 years of experience in software reverse engineering, code-level security auditing, or Android system security.

Experience with developing or analyzing Android apps.

Experience reading assembly and understanding of how to unpack obfuscated code.

Experience with static and dynamic analysis of malicious binaries.

Familiarity with tools such as IDA Pro or OllyDbg.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills to clearly communicate technical concepts with multiple cross-regional and cross-functional stakeholders.

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.

Making the world’s information universally accessible and useful doesn’t stop at the desktop. Our Android Security Operations team is responsible for finding malware and unwanted behaviors in Android, reverse engineering them, and mitigating their damage.

As a Security Analyst, you will provide application analysis expertise and threat detection to identify sources of abuse and understand how these applications operate. You will help characterize and respond to those applications and will contribute to the creation of better protection and alerting mechanisms.

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

Design solutions that enable automatic identification of harmful or unwanted Android applications.

Analyze harmful or unwanted Android applications to understand their behavior and their impact on the Android ecosystem.

Conduct investigations to identify harmful behaviors, enforce product policies, and analyze distribution trends.

Collaborate with cross-functional groups such as Engineering, Policy, and Legal to update policies, fix product loopholes, and provide users with a better mobile experience.

Ability to occasionally review or be exposed to sensitive or violative content as part of our core role.

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.