Engineering Analyst, Trust And Safety, Ads Account Takeover

Engineering Analyst, Trust And Safety, Ads Account Takeover

Fast-paced, dynamic, and proactive, YouTube's Trust & Safety team is dedicated to making YouTube a safe place for users, viewers, and content creators around the world to create, and express themselves. Whether understanding and solving their online content concerns, navigating within global legal frameworks, or writing and enforcing worldwide policy, the Trust & Safety team is on the frontlines of enhancing the YouTube experience, building internet safety, and protecting free speech in our ever-evolving digital world.

In this role, you will be working with a team of analysts that assess and address threats against Google Ads accounts in the hijacking space. You are keen to identify and solve problems at scale and have excellent analytical, technical and security skills. You are proactive, motivated, organized, responsible, innovative and are able to work well in a changing, global, cross-functional, and team-oriented environment and demonstrate excellent technical know-how, effective communication to get things done. You will also work very closely with engineering and product teams to make sure that you can quickly adapt our products and defenses against new threat vectors, to ensure a safe experience for users and advertisers. You will build, leverage and evaluate models and operations to solve cyber security and abuse problems. This role may review graphic, controversial, and sometimes offensive content during the course of the role as well as infrequent on-call schedules outside of working hours, including weekends/holidays.

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 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 include providing detailed and actionable qualitative and quantitative understanding of the Ads account takeover threat landscape, designing and building early warning alerts for novel and changing threats, applying security intelligence to respond to new adversarial campaigns, and working with Ads Safety to get tooling improvements when needed.