Google Looking For Security and Abuse Data Analyst, Safe Browsing at San Francisco, CA Full Time

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

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

Experience in SQL.

Preferred qualifications:
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or Analytics, or related technical discipline.

Experience with abuse/fraud detection or web security research.

Knowledge of domain or interest in security, phishing, malware, or related topics.

Understanding of how the internet works economically, socially, and technically.

Ability to communicate technical concepts and manage competing stakeholder demands.

Ability multitask in a fast-paced environment.

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 Security and Abuse Data Analyst, you will help the team in its mission to protect Google’s users. Our goals include: increasing the coverage, accuracy, and speed of Safe Browsing enforcement systems; understanding the global threat environment for phishing, malware, and unwanted software; and improving the user experience, both internally and externally, by communicating with webmasters, users, and partners.

In this role, you will detect and prevent abuses such as phishing and malware.You will work to ensure that the trust users place not only in Safe Browsing, but also in Google as a broader brand and company, is well founded. You will use problem-solving skills to make data-driven plans.

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

Perform data analyses to identify harmful entities, design and implement key performance metrics, examine trends, and identify system vulnerabilities.

Analyze potentially malicious websites and software to understand their behavior and impact on users.

Improve tools or systems by influencing stakeholders with data and analysis.

Enhance operational workflows via process improvements and automation.

Collaborate with cross-functional groups such as Engineering, Product, and Legal to improve system accuracy, fix product loopholes, and provide users with a better online experience.

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.