About the job

Join our new, dynamic Trust and Safety Account Threats team in Seattle, collaborating with our existing teams in Zurich and Bangalore. We are building a dedicated group focused on rapid incident response to protect billions of users from account compromise, scaled account abuse, and other emerging threats.

As a Security Engineering Analyst, you will be on the front lines, and into active security incidents, analyzing data to understand threats, and taking action to keep our users safe. Our mission is to protect Google accounts and products from threats and abuse and in this context you will respond to critical incidents, analyze large amounts of data to programmatically find and close vulnerabilities in our protections and use your automation and AI skills to make our response more efficient.

In this role, you will find and understand how the most sophisticated threat actors are getting their Google accounts and help us strategically stay ahead of them, by partnering across Trust and Safety, Engineering and Product teams. You will bring in your experience to identify and lead new initiatives on how to evolve our capabilities or influence.
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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $159,000-$231,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Drive the response for high priority/severity account security incidents, conducting through RCAs (Root Cause Analyses) to inform and implement sustainable long-term solutions.

• Use large-scale data analysis to discover and interpret new ways attackers are compromising Google accounts or are creating and using them for abuse, identifying weak points in our systems.

• Lead efforts to further evolve our response capability (through automation, process improvements or new ideas for threat hunting), how we track changes in the threat landscape, or our communication and influence (e.g., for new areas of threats and protections).

• Partner with the broader team, Program Manager (PM) and Engineering to identify, prioritize and develop strong strategies against the most pressing and novel threats.

• Perform on-call responsibilities on a rotating basis, including weekend coverage/holidays.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of experience in a data-intensive role such as threat intelligence, data science, trust and safety, or fraud analysis.

• 5 years of experience managing projects and defining project scope, goals, and deliverables.

• Experience working with SQL or Python.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering).

• Experience in cyber-security, incident response, threat intelligence or threat detection.

• Experience with metrics design, process design or automation in the adversarial space.

• Experience with scripting languages like Python.

• Ability to explain complex technical issues clearly to stakeholders at different levels with excellent data analysis, SQL and communication skills.

• Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills with attention to detail in an ever-changing environment.