Google Maps Traffic Integrity Engineering Analyst
Mountain View, CA
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in managing projects and defining project scope, goals and deliverables.
- 7 years of experience in a data-intensive role such as threat intelligence, data science, trust & safety, or fraud analysis.
- 7 years of experience in data analysis including identifying trends, generating summary statistics and drawing insights from quantitative and qualitative data.
- Experience with threat intelligence, anti-abuse, security, network analysis, or fraud detection.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or a related quantitative field.
- Experience with abuse detection, spam, web development or project management.
- Experience with data analysis, statistical analysis and data science and large language models.
- Experience with threat intelligence, anti-abuse, security, network analysis, fraud detection or Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
- Experience with or understanding of machine learning systems and concepts.
- Proficiency in or familiarity with SQL, JavaScript, Python, or C++.
About the job
The Geo Anti-Scraping Protection (GASP) team is dedicated to protecting Google's valuable Geo data assets from automated exfiltration. Our core mission is to protect Maps data like street view imagery, user-generated content (reviews, photos), and map details from programmatic exfiltration.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $189,000-$274,000 + 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
- Investigate and analyze complex patterns of data exfiltration and abuse on Google Maps, utilizing data-driven insights to develop and propose effective countermeasures. Analyze large-scale logs data from various Geo surfaces to identify, understand, and monitor inorganic traffic, scraping activities, and abuse patterns.
- Design, test, and launch new anti-scraping rules, models, and system enhancements tailored to Geo's products and infrastructure. Evaluate the effectiveness of detection mechanisms, understanding the impact on both scrapers and legitimate user experience.
- Develop metrics to measure scraper impact on Geo services and the effectiveness of anti-scraping defenses. Contribute to the development of signals and features for ML models to detect scraping attempts.
- Investigate proof-of-concept attacks and research reports that identify blind spots and guide the team's development priorities.
- Develop threat intelligence on actors, motivations, tactics, and the ecosystem targeting Geo data.
About the Company
Build for everyone
Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.
It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.
So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.
Benefits
We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.
Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.
How we Hire
Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.