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Engineering Analyst, Payments Trust and Safety

Google
  • Seattle, WA
    30+ days ago

    Job Description

    In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:
    • Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
    • Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
    • Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
    • Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
    • Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
    • Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
    • Holidays: 13 paid days per year

    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 in the Payments industry, working on risk or fraud management.
    • 2 years of experience managing projects and defining project scope, goals, and deliverables.

    Preferred qualifications:

    • Master's degree in a quantitative discipline.
    • Working knowledge in one or more of the following areas: programming languages (e.g., Python, R, C/C++), statistical analysis (e.g., Scipy) and machine learning libraries (e.g., Scikit-learn, TF), Large Language Models (LLMs) or Generative AI Agents.
    • Demonstrated ability to identify workflow pain points, optimize, automate and scale processes.
    • Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills with attention to detail in an ever-changing environment.
    • Strong project and program management skills and experience.

    About the job

    Trust and 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, problem-solving skills, user insights, and proactive communication to protect users and partners from abuse across Google products such as Play, Cloud, Pay, YouTube, Shopping, Fi.

    In this role, you are a big-picture thinker and strategic team-player, passionate about doing what’s right. You work globally and cross-functionally with Google engineers and product managers identifying and fighting abuse and fraud cases at Google speed - with urgency. You take pride in knowing that every day you are working hard to promote users’ trust in Google and ensuring the highest levels of user safety.

    You will be responsible for restricting or preventing fraudsters and abusers to ensure a safe and secure payments environment for our users. You are keen to identify and solve complex problems and have very strong problem-solving and technical skills to innovate and optimize our processes and tools. You are proactive, motivated, organized, responsible, innovative and are able to work well in a fast-paced, global, cross-functional, and team-oriented environment and demonstrate very strong technical know-how, effective communication to get things done. You will also work with product and engineering teams to make sure that new products and features provide a good, safe experience for users.

    Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $132000 - $190000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefitsLearn more about benefits at Google.

    Responsibilities

    • Manage payment fraud and abuse mitigation to promote user trust and safety across Google products.
    • Investigate incidents and perform statistical analysis to identify trends and generate risk management solutions.
    • Assess product vulnerabilities to design and implement end-to-end fraud and abuse mitigation strategies.
    • Collaborate with global Engineering and Product teams to enhance tools, develop signals, and improve system efficiency.
    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.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSeattle, WA
    IndustryComputer Software
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1998
    Websitehttps://goo.gle/4dbno6V

    Benefits

    Paid Sick Days, Performance Bonus, Professional Development, 401K, Stock Options, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Work From Home, Life Insurance, On Site Cafeteria

    About Company

    Build for everyone

    Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.

    It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.

    So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.

    Benefits

    We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.

    Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.

    How we Hire

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