Senior Engineering Analyst, AdSpam

• 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

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.

The mission of our team is to protect Google's users and advertisers by making the ads ecosystem universally trusted and defended against invalid traffic and ensuring publishers comply with our policies.In this role, you will defend Google's ad products from fraud and abuse. You will evaluate millions of publishers, analyze billions of events, and create scalable methods to stop bad actors and motivated fraudsters from causing harm. You will understand the users' point of view and will be passionate about using our technical, sales, and customer service acumen to protect them. You will also help users, advertisers, publishers, and Google harness information and monetize the internet safely and usefully.

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute sophisticated investigations and analyses using advanced statistical methods and data sources to identify, characterize, and defend against novel fraud and abuse across Google's ad ecosystem.
• Partner closely with Engineering teams to improve ad traffic infrastructure, defense systems, and workflows. Proactively identify and help implement efficiency improvements through advanced machine learning techniques, scaled defenses, and automation.
• Drive full life-cycle projects across Product, Engineering, and Trust and Safety teams to prevent abuse by improving policies and closing product vulnerabilities.
• Work collaboratively with teammates around the globe and deliver projects from beginning to end in a timely manner.
• Work with sensitive content or situations and may be exposed to graphic, controversial, or upsetting topics or content.