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Scaled Abuse Analyst, Impersonation, Trust and Safety, YouTube

Google
Full-time
On-site
San Bruno, California, United States
$126,000 - $181,000 USD yearly
Analyst

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.
  • Experience in SQL (e.g., SQL, MySQL, MapReduce).

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree in a quantitative discipline.
  • 2 year of experience with machine learning systems.
  • 2 year of experience with one or more of the following languages: SQL, R, Python, or C++.
  • Experience with fraud and abuse in online platforms.
  • Experience in data analysis and statistical modeling.

About the job:

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.

As a Scaled Abuse Analyst, you are passionate about technologies and use your experience with analyzing large-scale data and scaled systems of review. You will grow in a fast, dynamic, demanding environment where no two days are ever the same. You will be a key contributor, independent, critical thinker with sound metrics judgment who has a passion for solving technological challenges and setting scalable standards in the ever-evolving impersonation space.

At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $126,000-$181,000 + 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:

  • Apply advanced statistical methods to large complex data sets to understand impact of abuse to the YouTube ecosystem. Provide data-driven insights and recommendations for effective abuse prevention and enforcement.
  • Learn complex and technical concepts and systems and deliver meaningful results using them.
  • Communicate technical results and methods clearly.
  • Identify product vulnerabilities and abuse trends by performing investigations using various data sources. Contribute strategy and development of new workflows against additional known vectors of abuse.
  • Collaborate closely with stakeholders and partners in engineering, product, policy and legal to drive complex anti-abuse solutions involving and impacting various cross-functional areas.