Security Analyst, Safe Browsing, Trust and Safety (google)

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 2 years of experience in data analysis, including identifying trends, generating summary statistics, and drawing insights from quantitative and qualitative data.
  
• 2 years of experience managing projects and defining project scope, goals, and deliverables.
  
• 2 years of experience in data analysis, working with databases and querying (e.g., SQL, MySQL, R, Python, MapReduce, Hadoop).
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in a quantitative discipline or equivalent practical experience.
  
• Experience with abuse and fraud detection, web security research, or risk management.
  
• Experience in applying machine learning techniques to large datasets.
  
• Understanding of how the internet works economically, socially, and technically, and domain knowledge or proven interest in security, phishing, malware, or related topics.
  
• Ability to prioritize competing stakeholder demands and manage multiple responsibilities in a fluid environment.
  
• Excellent communication skills.

Summary

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 2 years of experience in data analysis, including identifying trends, generating summary statistics, and drawing insights from quantitative and qualitative data.
  
• 2 years of experience managing projects and defining project scope, goals, and deliverables.
  
• 2 years of experience in data analysis, working with databases and querying (e.g., SQL, MySQL, R, Python, MapReduce, Hadoop).
  

Description

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.

In this role, you will help the team protect Google’s users. You will help increase the coverage, accuracy, and speed of safe browsing enforcement systems. You will understand the global threat environment for phishing, malware, and social engineering, and utilize Artificial Intelligence (AI) to expand our ability to protect users worldwide.

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 analysis 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. Improve classifiers using machine learning and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). 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 issues, and provide users with a better online experience.
  
• Understand Google's product policy, enforcement, and risk strategy in order to identify key policy and enforcement operational successes, risks and inconsistencies, and opportunities for improvement.
  
• Review or be exposed to graphic, controversial, or upsetting content in line with Google's policies.
  

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