Staff Engineering Analyst, Adspam, Trust and Safety

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 (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)

Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks

Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks

Holidays: 13 paid days per yearMinimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
7 years of experience in data analysis, including identifying trends, generating summary statistics, and drawing insights from quantitative and qualitative data.
Experience with SQL or Python.

Preferred qualifications:

Master's degree in a quantitative discipline.
Experience in building operations, efficient workflow design and process documentation.
Experience in crafting engaging narratives intended to influence internal and external stakeholders, as well as presenting to executives in the organization.
Experience in data manipulation, analysis, and automation using languages like Python and SQL with a data-driven approach to solve challenges.
Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills with attention to detail in an ever-changing environment.
Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence cross-functionally at various levels.

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.

In this role, you will be trained to use tools that analyze datasets that are truly Google-scale. You will analyze the advanced data analysis techniques we use to prevent fraud and abuse.You will collaborate closely on projects with Engineering, Product, Sales, and Legal stakeholders. You will protect millions of advertiser dollars.

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 $174,000-$258,000 + 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

Analyze the evolving AI threat landscape. Identify and forecast future misuse vectors and adversarial techniques, translating these insights into proactive mitigation plans.
Provide and apply our intelligence to be ready to respond to new adversarial campaigns or actors, taking enforcement actions to identify and defend novel fraud and abuse on Google's ad products.
Lead initiatives to implement next-generation safety mitigations. Guide engineering and research teams in building sophisticated technical solutions, from fine-tuning techniques to classifier-based guardrails.
Partner closely with Engineering teams to improve ad traffic infrastructure, defense systems, and workflows. Identify and help implement efficiency improvements through advanced machine learning techniques, defenses, and automation.
Work across time zones, to communicate with a globally distributed team.


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 .

Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
General Business, Strategy/Planning, and Consulting
Industries
Information Services and Technology, Information and Internet